Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
LILY TOMLINMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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