We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
LILY TOMLINThe start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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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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