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

Lily Tomlin

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
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
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
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
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
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing

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

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