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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Form Intelligence Life Universe Yourself
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
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
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 feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
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
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
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
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
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
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
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
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk

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