George Carlin Quotes
I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
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I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.
