I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
LILY TOMLINNo matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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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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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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