The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
LILY TOMLINWe are all in this together, by ourselves.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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 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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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