I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
LILY TOMLINGrowing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with 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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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