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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

Lily Tomlin

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
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
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
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
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
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
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
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
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
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
LILY TOMLIN

God Ourselves Prayer Talk

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

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