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

Lily Tomlin

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
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
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
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
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
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

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

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