Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLINLanguage was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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