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Lily Tomlin

If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
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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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Lying Make Up True Yourself
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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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Home Myself Teacher Thinking
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
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Myself Thinking Worry
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People

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