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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.

Lily 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.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Funny Myself Serious
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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
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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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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

Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.

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