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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin

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
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
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
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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 think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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
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
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try

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