I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
LILY TOMLINYou 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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 I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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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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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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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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