Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
LILY TOMLINI think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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 you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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