Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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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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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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