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.
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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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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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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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