Sam Kinison Quotes

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

Sam Kinison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1953 - April 10, 1992

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I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

John Abizaid

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If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

Maya Angelou

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Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

Robert Shaw

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I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

Matt Taibbi

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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

Robert Caro

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First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'

Rochelle Aytes

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You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Lucian Freud

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I need to learn every day.

Judi Dench

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If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

Jay Weatherill

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As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

Dean Winters

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What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Brian Greene

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