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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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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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.
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When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
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If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years--nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
