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.
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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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