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.
LILY TOMLINBut 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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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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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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