If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLINNinety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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