If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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