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.
LILY TOMLINI was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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