What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLINIf 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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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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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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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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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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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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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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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