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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.

Lily Tomlin

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
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
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 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
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
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
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time 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
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
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
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
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLIN

Love Question Yourself

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