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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.

Lily Tomlin

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
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
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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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
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
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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