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.
LILY TOMLINWhat I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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