But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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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 phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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