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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.

Lily Tomlin

People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
LILY TOMLIN

Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLIN

Fear Thinking Yourself
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.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Feeling Sex
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
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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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Beautiful Funny Hairs Library Truth
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLIN

End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
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 TOMLIN

Funny Hard Interest Talk Yourself
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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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
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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Existence Feeling Love Universe Wake Up
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
LILY TOMLIN

Consumption Life Live People Style
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
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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Fame Myself Settle Willing
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself

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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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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