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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.

Lily Tomlin

If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
LILY TOMLIN

Fame Myself Settle Willing
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Equality Money Pay People Work
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
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
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
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
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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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
LILY TOMLIN

Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
LILY TOMLIN

Feeling Imagination Myself
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
LILY TOMLIN

Hypocrisy Life Meaning
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
LILY TOMLIN

Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Funny Myself Serious
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
LILY TOMLIN

Belief Better Possible Start World
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
LILY TOMLIN

Hard Myself Try
You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
LILY TOMLIN

Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way

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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