If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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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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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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 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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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