What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

Lily Tomlin

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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
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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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Impossible Myself News Reading
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
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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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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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Deep God Hypocrisy Prayer Talk
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
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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Children Dirty Myself Revolution Sex Worry
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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Greatness Growth World
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Place Public Reality Time Yourself
I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Action Deep Inspirational Motivational Myself
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Consumption Life Live People Style
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Believe Freedom Hands Man Reason Sex Walk
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
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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Adult Country Election Hard Work
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Company Earth Name Phone Standard
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Believe Dirty Myself Sex

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

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