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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
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
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
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
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
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
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
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
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
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
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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
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
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
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
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Fame Myself Settle Willing
I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
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
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
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself

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