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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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
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
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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

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