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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.

Lily Tomlin

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Fame Myself Settle Willing
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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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
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
If 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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
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
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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

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