If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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