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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

Lily Tomlin

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question 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 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

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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