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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.

Lily Tomlin

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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
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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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Fame Myself Settle Willing
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
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
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
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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

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