If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
LILY TOMLINGrowing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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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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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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