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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Lily Tomlin

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLIN

Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
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
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
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
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
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
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
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
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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