Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
LILY TOMLINI feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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The road to success is always under construction.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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