People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
LILY TOMLINI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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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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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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