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.
LILY TOMLINIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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