I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
LILY TOMLINThings are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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