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.
LILY TOMLINI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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