If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
LILY TOMLINI think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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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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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.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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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.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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