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Lily Tomlin

There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
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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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Life Myself Reality Small Style
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night

If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.

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