If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
LILY TOMLINIf trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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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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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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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