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.
LILY TOMLINWe have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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