Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLINFor fast-acting relief try slowing down.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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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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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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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 can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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