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

Lily Tomlin

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
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
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
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
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 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
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
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
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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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
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
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
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
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
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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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
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 was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type

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