If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it 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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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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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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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