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 TOMLINFor fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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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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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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