Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
LILY TOMLINThe phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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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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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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