Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
LILY TOMLINCreating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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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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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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