Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLINThere’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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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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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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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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