If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLINIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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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.
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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 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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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