There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLINI still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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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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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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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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