Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
LILY TOMLINThings are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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 bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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.
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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