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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Lily Tomlin

Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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 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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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try

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