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.
LILY TOMLINI bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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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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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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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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