The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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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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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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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 read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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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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