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

Lily Tomlin

I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Action Deep Inspirational Motivational Myself
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
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
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
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
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
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
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
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
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
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work

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