There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLINLady, 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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