I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
LILY TOMLINFor fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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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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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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