I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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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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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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