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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

Lily Tomlin

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
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
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
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
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
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry

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