1,246 Quotes by George Carlin

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    So I live in Los Angeles, and it’s kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

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    A crazy person doesn’t really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

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    Running isn’t a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can’t be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don’t see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?

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    There’s a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

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    Voting is a meaningless exercise. I’m not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don’t. Everything is done to you in this country.

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    When someone is impatient and says, ‘I haven’t got all day,’ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

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    Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it’s not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You’re collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

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    Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you’re not dead yet.

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