Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
LILY TOMLINWhen 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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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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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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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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