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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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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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 more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.
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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.
