I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
LILY TOMLINReality is nothing but a collective hunch.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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