Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLINWhat goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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