George Carlin Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
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I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
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O quanta qualiasunt illa sabbata,quae semper celebratsuperna curia.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
