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.
LILY TOMLINI can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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