My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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