Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
LILY TOMLINIf trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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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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