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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Lily Tomlin

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
I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
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
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
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
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
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
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
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 about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex 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
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself

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