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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.

Lily Tomlin

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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
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
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
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
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
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
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth

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