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.
LILY TOMLINI guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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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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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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