Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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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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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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