For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
LILY TOMLINThings are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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When 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.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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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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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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 guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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