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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The road to success is always under construction.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin
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Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
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