Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLINPeople hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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