The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
LILY TOMLINI have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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