When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
LILY TOMLINIf I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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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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