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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.

Lily Tomlin

You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
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
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
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Love Question Yourself
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
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
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way

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