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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

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
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
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
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
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
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
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
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
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
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
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
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

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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