I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
LILY TOMLINNo matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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