Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
LILY TOMLINWhen I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Wouldn’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.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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