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.
LILY TOMLINTruth 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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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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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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