The road to success is always under construction.
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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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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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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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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