Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLINThe start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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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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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Ninety 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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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