The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
LILY TOMLINReality is nothing but a collective hunch.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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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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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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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