Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
LILY TOMLINThe phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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 have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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