Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
LILY TOMLINI always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep 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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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