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 TOMLINThe road to success is always under construction.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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