When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.


George Carlin

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When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons
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Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
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He had a sort of pain that was fairly evident.
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Rich White Men Don't Care About Poor Black People
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You get to play with people's little danger zones.
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'We hope you enjoy your stay in Chicago or wherever your final destination may be.' All destinations...
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When you stress individualism, as this country does; materialism, as this country does; personal wea...
GEORGE CARLIN
In comic strips, the person on the right always speaks first.
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In labor news, longshoremen walked off the piers today; rescue operations are continuing
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I went straight from shenanigans to cries against humanity
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A man came up to me on the street and said I used to be messed up out of my mind on drugs but now I'...
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I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a...
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If you’re reading it in a book, folks, it ain’t self-help. It’s help.
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If the Reds were baseball's first team, who did they play?
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What if Alexander Graham Bell's name were Alexander Graham Siren? The phone wouldn't ring, it would ...
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Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that bi...
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Excuse me, officer, but would you mind bringing the wreckage a little closer this way? My wife can't...
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Everything beeps now
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You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic
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Think about it,
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I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and...
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Most people are not particularly good at anything
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I enjoy watching reruns of Saturday Night Live and counting all the dead people
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When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or ...
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What are you going to do, play with your prick for another 20 to 30 years,>Read People Magazine your...
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One thing i don't understand is sex is legal and selling things is legal but selling sex is illegal.
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“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
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If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categ...
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Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.
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