You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLINI can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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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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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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