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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
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
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
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
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
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
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
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
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk

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