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Lily Tomlin

We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
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
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
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 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
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Greatness Growth World
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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

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