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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.

Lily Tomlin

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
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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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
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
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
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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Greatness Growth World
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
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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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People

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