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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.

Lily Tomlin

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
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
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
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
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
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
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
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself

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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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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