The road to success is always under construction.
LILY TOMLINBeing a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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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.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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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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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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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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