Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLINBeing a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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