What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLINWe don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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