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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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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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
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Californians try everything once.
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There is also present another source of energy operating in a more continuous fashion and being more intimately connected with the permanent evolution in human societies.
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Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
