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 TOMLINI was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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 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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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