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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.

Lily Tomlin

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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
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
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
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
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
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

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