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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.

Lily Tomlin

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
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
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
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
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
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Action Deep Inspirational Motivational Myself
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Adult Country Election Hard Work
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
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
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
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
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
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
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

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