If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
LILY TOMLINNo matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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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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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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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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