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.
LILY TOMLINWhy isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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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 always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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