I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
LILY TOMLINThings are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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