Lily Tomlin on togetherness
Lily Tomlin88 quotes“We are all in this together, by ourselves.”
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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 TomlinLily Tomlin There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte Anytime you get nine people together, whether it’s at a party or it’s in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.
John RobertsJohn Roberts Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
Emily BronteEmily Bronte I’d rather be more of the hippie country chick – as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, ‘We’re all screw-ups. We’re all in this kind of together. We’re all just figuring this out.’
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