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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.

Lily Tomlin

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
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
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
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
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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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Cost Live Money People Reason
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
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering 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 that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
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
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
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
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
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 try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try

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