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

Lily Tomlin

I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
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
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

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

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