It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
LILY TOMLINWe don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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