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

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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
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
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
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
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
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
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself

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

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