If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
LILY TOMLINIf life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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