Having 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.
LILY TOMLINEven when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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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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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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