After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLINWhen I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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