The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
LILY TOMLINEven when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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