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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

Lily Tomlin

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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Action Deep Inspirational Motivational Myself
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
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
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
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
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
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
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking

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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

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