Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

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Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress and comedian. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting across stage and screen. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy...

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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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We're all in this alone.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success—yours or his.

—Franklin P. Jones

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There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

—Christopher Morley in Where the Blue Begins

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There is this idea now in this country that all people who succeed, succeed on their own, and all people who fail, fail on their own, whereas neither is true. The vast majority of people in this country stay where they're born. Very few people move too far from home. Rich people rarely become poor, and poor people rarely become rich. But we live in a society ruled by anecdote, so that we have no sense at all of what actually happens to most people.

—Fran Lebowitz

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

—Pablo Picasso

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

—Abbie Hoffman

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