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George Carlin Quotes - Page 36

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In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

Independent, Identity, Adolescence

Source: mavericksofthemind.com

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

People, Groups, Wonder

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

Numbers, People, Misguided

Source: reprints.longform.org

I believe you can joke about anything.

Believe, Believe You Can, I Believe

Song: Rape Can Be Funny, Album: Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics

The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high.

Fun, Getting High, Enjoyment

Source: reprints.longform.org

The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything.

Coke, Body, Awful

Source: reprints.longform.org

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

Reading, Thinking, Levels

Source: reprints.longform.org

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

Compulsion, Dividends

Source: reprints.longform.org

I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.

Class, Skills, People

Source: mavericksofthemind.com

My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there.

Mother, Home, School

Source: reprints.longform.org

To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other.

Smoking, Rolling, Sitting

Source: reprints.longform.org

The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

Writing, Editing, Editors

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people. When you drop a newspaper over a sign and walk away with it, or take something off a wall and the sound of the glue ripping makes people turn around. Your heart is racing, it's a rush.

Wall, Heart, Views

Source: reprints.longform.org

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

Teacher, Talking, People

Source: reprints.longform.org

The person who is most a part of me is the performer, is the standup, the guy who says, "Hey look at me, listen to this!" I do that because that's what I do, I love doing it.

Guy, Looks, Hey

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

School, Needs, Study

Source: mavericksofthemind.com

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

Dollar Bills, Dollars, Noses

Source: reprints.longform.org

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

Food, Turkeys, Cooking

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

Marijuana, Use, Tapering

Source: reprints.longform.org

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

Strong, New York, Marijuana

Source: reprints.longform.org

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

Sports, Baseball, Mirrors

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

Ethnicity, Might, Homosexuality

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

Ideas, Together, Pieces

Mother's milk leads to everything.

Mother, Milk

I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

Trying, Target, Way

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