George Carlin Quotes

I am my own demographic.

I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.

I want an identity outside of my work.

A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

I am definitely an individual.

I like that message for my own children that you don't have to go with the flow, go with the crowd. That you can be your own person. You can be an individual, and that's valid, and that's important.

I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

It's cool to step away for a second and be my own person other than just somebody in a known family.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

I'm not representing other people. I'm representing me.