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Lily Tomlin

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
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
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
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
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
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
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself

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