I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
LILY TOMLINWhy isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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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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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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