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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.

Lily Tomlin

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
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 worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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
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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Fame Myself Settle Willing
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
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
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
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
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
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
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
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone

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