I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
LILY TOMLINI worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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