What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLINIf you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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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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