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.
LILY TOMLINI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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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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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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