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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

Lily Tomlin

To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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Cost Live Money People Reason
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Lying Make Up True Yourself
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

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