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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
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 worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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
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
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language

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