Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
LILY TOMLINThe larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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