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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

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
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
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
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
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
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
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
But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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Cost Live Money People Reason
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
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
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset 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
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion

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