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.
LILY TOMLINDid you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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