The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
LILY TOMLINBeing a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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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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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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