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

Lily Tomlin

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Lying Make Up True Yourself
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
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
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
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
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself

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