George Carlin Quotes

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Comedian | May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008
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Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
Peter F. Drucker
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir
One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior! (p. 46)
Sei Shōnagon
Were Women all like those whom here I name,
Woman to man I surely would prefer;
The Sun is feminine, nor deems it shame;
The Moon, though masculine, depends on her.
Rabia al-Adawiyya
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During my recovery, I gave myself self-love and self-care, and I embraced being curvier. I accepted what my body wanted to be, To this day my arms, shoulders, breasts, and thighs are fuller. I have a little mommy pouch, and I’m in no rush to get rid of it. I think it’s real.
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Most people don’t have very many numbers in their address book they use their recents as their address book. Right? How many of you do that? I bet more than a few.
Steve Jobs
Of a slender figure, she had drooping shoulders and a rather long neck, slim but not to the point of being skinny. Her eyebrows were arched and in her eyes there was a look of quick intelligence and soft refinement.
Shen Fu
(After Franklin transforms and behaves like The Mask) Oh dear. This is just what he did at Nixon's funeral.
Margo Albert
The Unseasonable man is one who will go up to a busy person, and open his heart to him. He will serenade his mistress when she has a fever. He will address himself to a man who has been cast in a surety-suit, and request him to become his security. He will come to give evidence when the trial is over.
Socrates of Rhodes
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Were Women all like those whom here I name,
Woman to man I surely would prefer;
The Sun is feminine, nor deems it shame;
The Moon, though masculine, depends on her.
Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Lillian Copeland
Sometimes, when I get nervous, I stick my hands under my armpits and then I smell them like this!
Katherine Graham
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There’s a psychological phenomenon called ‘reactance,’ that means when people believe that their choices are being limited or they’re going to have to engage in costly behaviors, they’re likely to push back against that and the message can backfire.
Cleo Wade
These bad actors have made a business out of publishing increasingly extreme and hateful content because it makes them money.
Nandini Jammi