The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
LILY TOMLINI think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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