Lily Tomlin on consumption
“We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.”
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The road to success is always under construction.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin
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