I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
LILY TOMLINIn 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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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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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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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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