The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
LILY TOMLINTruth 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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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.
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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 was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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