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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.

Lily Tomlin

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
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
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
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 don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
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
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
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
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
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth

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