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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.

Lily Tomlin

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
LILY TOMLIN

Life Myself Reality Small Style
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
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
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
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
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
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.
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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
LILY TOMLIN

Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Greatness Growth World
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.

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