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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

To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
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
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
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
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
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
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
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
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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
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
What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Expectation Philosophy Yourself
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
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
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
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
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

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

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