If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
LILY TOMLINI worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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