I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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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Language was invented because of the deep human 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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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.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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