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.
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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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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