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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

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
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
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
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
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
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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
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
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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Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
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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