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.

Lily Tomlin

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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Action Deep Inspirational Motivational Myself
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
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
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
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

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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