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Lily Tomlin

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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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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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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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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