When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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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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