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Lily Tomlin

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time 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
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 guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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
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
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
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
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
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
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
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking

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