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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.

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.
LILY TOMLIN

Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
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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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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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Adult Country Election Hard Work
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN

Change Enough Myself Transformation

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