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.
LILY TOMLINReality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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