The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
LILY TOMLIN9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough 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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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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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 evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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