"When you start in the childhood period,..." - Quote by George Carlin
When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.
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“I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.”
“If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.”
“I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.”
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“I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.”
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“I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?”
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