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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

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
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
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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
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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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
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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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
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

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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