I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
LILY TOMLINHaving 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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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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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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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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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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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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