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" 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. "
Lily Tomlin
Worse
Still
Boring
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" Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life! "
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" Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. "
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" When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store. "
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" I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. "
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" We are all in this together, by ourselves. "
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" It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. "
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" The best mind-altering drug is the truth. "
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" Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. "
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" What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains. "
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" If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? "
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" There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. "
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" 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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" For fast-acting relief try slowing down. "
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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. "
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" 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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" I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. "
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" Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. "
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Before
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" I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me. "
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Way
Said
" We're all in this alone. "
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" Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. "
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Had
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" I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war. "
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" The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. "
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" You don't really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice. Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very, very happy about it. "
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Nice
You
" 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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Us
God
Said
" I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. "
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" Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. "
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Need
Man
Complain
" I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat. "
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" I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types. "
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" No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. "
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