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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Lily Tomlin

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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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
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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Fame Myself Settle Willing
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
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
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
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
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
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
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
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
LILY TOMLIN

Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness

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