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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Greatness Growth World
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
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
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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 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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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 was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
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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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up

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