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.
LILY TOMLINDid 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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