There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLINThe phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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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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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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