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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.

Lily Tomlin

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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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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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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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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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.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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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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