Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLINI was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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.
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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