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.
LILY TOMLINThe road to success is always under construction.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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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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