Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
LILY TOMLINWell, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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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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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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