The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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 best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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