If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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.
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