I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
LILY TOMLINSuccess is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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 all in this together, by ourselves.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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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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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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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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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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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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