The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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 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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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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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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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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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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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to 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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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