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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”

Lily Tomlin

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
LILY TOMLIN

Feeling Imagination Myself
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Funny Myself Serious
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLIN

Name Top Yourself
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLIN

Love Question Yourself
If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLIN

Direct Yourself
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Form Intelligence Life Lose Play Share Space Win
The road to success is always under construction.
LILY TOMLIN

Construction Inspirational Road Success
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
LILY TOMLIN

Feeling Mindset Yourself
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLIN

Myself Success World Worry
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
LILY TOMLIN

History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLIN

End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
LILY TOMLIN

Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Greatness Growth World
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
LILY TOMLIN

Company Earth Name Phone Standard
You 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.
LILY TOMLIN

Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way

When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”

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