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.
LILY TOMLINMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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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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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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.
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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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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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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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