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Lily Tomlin

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
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
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
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
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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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
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
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
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
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
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Lying Make Up True Yourself
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself
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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful

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