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

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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
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 always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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
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
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal

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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