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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.

Lily Tomlin

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
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View 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
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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex 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
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

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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