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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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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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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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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I'm an outsider.
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
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The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.
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The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.
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Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
