I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
LILY TOMLINTo me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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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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