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.
LILY TOMLINWe are all in this together, by ourselves.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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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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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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