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Lily Tomlin

Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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’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
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
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
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
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
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
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
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
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 feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
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
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
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Collection Conscious Feeling Humor Vehicle Wonderful
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
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
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try

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