Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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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.
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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.
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