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Lily Tomlin

We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
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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Greatness Growth World
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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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
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
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
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
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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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself
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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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth

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