Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLINInstead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough 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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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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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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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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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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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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