What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLINThings are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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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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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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