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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.


Sam Childers

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SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit...
SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&...
SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ...
SAM KEEN Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN