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

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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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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Cost Live Money People Reason
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
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
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
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
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
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
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
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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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember

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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