I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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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 you can’t be direct, why be?
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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 like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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 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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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