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Lily Tomlin

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
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
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
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
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
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
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
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
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
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation

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