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

Lily Tomlin

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
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 love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
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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Equality Money Pay People Work

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