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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
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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Equality Money Pay People Work
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
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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Lying Make Up True Yourself
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
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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Cat Development Dog Sensitive Suffering Yourself
The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Inspirational Road Success
Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Complain Human Invention Language
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself

I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.

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