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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin

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
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
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
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
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
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
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry

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