I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
LILY TOMLINIf you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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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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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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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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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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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 wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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