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Lily Tomlin

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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Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Actor Community Famous Myself Stage Yourself
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
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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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
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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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Beautiful Life Myself Pervert Thinking
To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Freedom Myself Sex Willing
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
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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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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Death Feeling Sex
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Death Funny Myself Serious

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