After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLINIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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