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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.

Lily Tomlin

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
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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 life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
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
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
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
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
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
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
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
Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Greatness Growth World

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.

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