Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
LILY TOMLINWe don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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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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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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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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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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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