If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLINYou 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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 so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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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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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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