Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
LILY TOMLINSometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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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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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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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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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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