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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.

Lily Tomlin

I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
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
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
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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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language

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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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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