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.
LILY TOMLINMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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 always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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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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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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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