George Carlin Quotes
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.
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Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: 'Is there no speed limit in this mad city?''Oh, yes, monsieur,' she answered sweetly over her shoulder, 'but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.'
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I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.
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Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
