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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Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
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The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.
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The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
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I have a sordid past.
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
