After all, in private, we’re all misfits.

Lily Tomlin

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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset 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
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
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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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch

After all, in private, we’re all misfits.

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