After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLINDid you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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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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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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