People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
LILY TOMLINTo me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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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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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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, 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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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