There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLINIn the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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If 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.
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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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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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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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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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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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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 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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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