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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.

Lily Tomlin

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN

Complain Human Invention Language
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
LILY TOMLIN

Feeling Mindset Yourself
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLIN

One Liner Privacy
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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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLIN

Fear Thinking Yourself
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
LILY TOMLIN

Leadership Reality Touch
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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Adult Country Election Hard Work
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Belief Better Possible Start World
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 TOMLIN

Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People

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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