I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
LILY TOMLINNinety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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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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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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