After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLINYou 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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