Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLINNo matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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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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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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