I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
LILY TOMLINYou can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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 like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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