George Carlin Quotes
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.
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As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.
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The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
