Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLINSometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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 can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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