George Carlin Quotes

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The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

George Carlin
Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

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Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

George Carlin
More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

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People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

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You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

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It used to be cars had cool names: Dart, Hawk, Fury, Cougar, Firebird, Hornet, Mustang, Barracuda. Now we have Elantra, Altima, Acura, Lumina, Sentra, Corolla, Maxima, Tercel. Further proof that America has lost its edge.

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If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

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Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

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The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

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Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

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If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

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I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.

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You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle.... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

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Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

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Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

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Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?

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The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

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Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.

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Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.

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The keys to America: The cross, the brew, the dollar, and the gun.

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People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

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On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

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Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.

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Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

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Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

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In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

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The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.

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I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

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Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

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