Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLINIn the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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 worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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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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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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