The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
LILY TOMLINWouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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.
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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