We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
LILY TOMLINWhy is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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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 worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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