Lily Tomlin on lying
Lily Tomlin88 quotes“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 feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The road to success is always under construction.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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