If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
LILY TOMLINI think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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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.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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