George Carlin Quotes

And, of course, the funniest food: 'kumquats'. I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Practices were tough.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
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• A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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  • Rules

• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
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• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
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• I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
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• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
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  • Seen

• The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

  

  Barry Diller
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• I don't do meetings.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.

  

  Tamron Hall
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  • Red
  • Blue

• Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

  

  Vijay Mallya
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  • India
  • Where

• I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

  

  Colin Cunningham
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  • Blessed

• Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.

  

  Bob Elliott
  • Up
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• If somebody says, "He sounds just like Michael Jackson," well there's already a Michael Jackson. You don't want to sound like Michael Jackson; you want to sound like yourself. The only way you're ever going to get anywhere, and stay there, is by being your own self.

  

  Charlie Daniels
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  • Michael Jackson

• And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which is really nice, kind of off the back of this, so I don't necessarily have to generate my own stuff. I'm just looking for something that's explosively funny and relatable in equal measure.

  

  Dan Mazer
  • Writing
  • Nice
  • Comedy

• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  

  Archibald Cox
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• And, of course, the funniest food: 'kumquats'. I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

  

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