Frases de George Carlin
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George Denis Patrick Carlin foi um humorista, comediante de stand-up, ator e autor norte-americano, vencedor de cinco Grammys. Pioneiro, com Lenny Bruce, no humor de crítica social, a sua mais polêmica rotina chamava-se "Sete Palavras que não se podem dizer em Televisão", o que lhe causou, durante os anos setenta, vários dissabores, acabando preso em inúmeras vezes que levou o texto a palco.

Carlin era conhecido pelo seu humor negro assim como seus pensamentos sobre política, língua inglesa, psicologia, religião, e vários temas tabus. Carlin e sua rotina "Seven Dirty Words", em 1978, foram o foco da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos no caso F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, na qual, em uma acirrada decisão por 5x4 dos votos, os jurados afirmaram o poder do governo de regular material indecente em sistemas públicos de rádio.

O primeiro de seus 14 especiais de comédia para TV, para a rede HBO, foi filmado em 1977. Na década de 1990 e 2000, as rotinas de Carlin se focaram em críticas sócio-culturais da sociedade moderna Americana. Ele muitas vezes comentou em problemas políticos contemporâneos dos Estados Unidos e satirizava os excessos da cultura Americana. Seu último especial da HBO, It's Bad for Ya, foi filmado menos de quatro meses antes de sua morte.

Em 2004, Carlin alcançou a segunda colocação da lista da Comedy Central dos 100 maiores comediantes de stand-up de todos os tempos, na frente de Lenny Bruce e atrás de Richard Pryor. Ele se apresentava frequentemente e era anfitrião convidado no The Tonight Show durante a era de três décadas de Johnny Carson, ele também foi o apresentador do primeiro episódio de Saturday Night Live. Em 2008, ele recebeu o prêmio Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Wikipedia  

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George Carlin Frases famosas

“Tenho tanta autoridade quanto o Papa, só não tenho tantas pessoas que acreditem nela.”

Variante: Eu tenho tanto poder quanto o Papa, só não tenho tantas pessoas que acreditam nisso.

“Eu vivo de acordo com certas regras. A primeira delas: Eu não acredito em nada que o governo me diz.”

Jammin' in New York (1992);Rockets And Penises In The Persian Gulf
Variante: Eu certamente tenho regras para viver. A primeira delas: Eu não acredito em nada que o governo me diz.

Citações de pessoas de George Carlin

“Pense o quanto é estúpida a pessoa média e note que metade das pessoas são mais estúpidas que ela.”

Doin' It Again / Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics (1990)

George Carlin frases e citações

George Carlin: Frases em inglês

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”

Cf. Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921), Pt. I : In the Beginning: I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
Variante: Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that shit.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

Doin' It Again, Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics (1990)
Contexto: I know that. Some people don't want you to mention certain things. Some people don't want you to say this, some people don't want you to say that. Some people think if you mention some things they might happen. Some people are really fucking stupid. Did you ever notice that, how many stupid people you run into during the day? Goddamn there's a lot of stupid bastards walking around. Carry a pad and pencil with you, you'll wind up with thirty or forty names by the end of the day. Think about this; think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that.

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”

Variante: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”

"Abortion"
Back in Town (1996)
Contexto: Here's another question I have. How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens... See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people. You don't see chickens hanging around in drug gangs, do you? No. You don't see a chicken strapping some guy to a chair and hooking up his nuts to a car battery, do you? When's the last chicken you heard about came home from work and beat the shit out of his hen, huh? Doesn't happen... 'cause chickens are decent people.

“I went from a comedian who wrote his own material to a writer who performed his own material.”

New York Times Interview, 1995
Interviews, Print Interviews
Contexto: After "Jammin' In New York", I went from a comedian who wrote his own material to a writer who performed his own material... I became socially conscious, and found I had something to say that wasn't too common.

“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.”

Archive of American Television http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/george-carlin, from one of Carlin's final interviews (2008)
Interviews, Television Appearances
Contexto: You know what, I said it this way: when you're born in this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks. And I'm a notebook kind of guy: [pretends to be taking notes] "Oh, my God, did you see that? Did you see what he just did?..." And I watch the freak show, and I kept my notes, and I make up stuff about it, and I talk about the freaks. And the freaks are all humans, and they are all like me, and we are all the same. I'm not better, I'm not different, I'm just apart now. I'm separate, I'm over here, because I put myself out of the mix. I don't have a stake at the outcome. I'm not a cheerleader for a given outcome now.

“I think I am, therefore I am. I think.”

Books, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)