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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
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
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
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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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
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
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
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
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
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
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself

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