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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Lily Tomlin

What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
LILY TOMLIN

Expectation Philosophy Yourself
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
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
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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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Cost Live Money People Reason
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
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
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
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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Lying Make Up True Yourself
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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
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
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself

I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

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