If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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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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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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