If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
LILY TOMLINThe larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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