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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

Lily Tomlin

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
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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Greatness Growth World
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
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
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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
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
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
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
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Fame Myself Settle Willing
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
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
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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Form Intelligence Life Universe 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
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
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
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
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

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