Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
LILY TOMLINPeople hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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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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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.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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