If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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You 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.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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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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