What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
LILY TOMLINReality is nothing but a collective hunch.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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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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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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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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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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