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 TOMLINIf truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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