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Lily Tomlin

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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Greatness Growth World
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
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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Better Cry Feeling Happiness Laughter Price Sad
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Name Top Yourself
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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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Hard Inspirational Motivational Perspective Soft Try
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
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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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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Hard Myself Try
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Change Enough Myself Transformation
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Complain Invention Language Man Satisfaction
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Hard Time Struggle Worst
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Construction Hands Ladder Road Success
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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Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth

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