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

Lily Tomlin

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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