The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
LILY TOMLINEven when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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