The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
LILY TOMLINReality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard 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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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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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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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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