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Lily Tomlin

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.
LILY TOMLIN

Big Confusion Deep Direction Expectation Leaving Right Understand Way
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
LILY TOMLIN

Love Question Yourself
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLIN

Born Growth Myself Place
There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
LILY TOMLIN

Death Feeling Sex
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
LILY TOMLIN

Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLIN

Name Top Yourself
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.
LILY TOMLIN

Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
LILY TOMLIN

Place Sorry Yourself
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLIN

Myself Success World Worry
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
LILY TOMLIN

Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLIN

End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
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 TOMLIN

Difference Integrity Myself Past Truth
What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
LILY TOMLIN

Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
LILY TOMLIN

Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
LILY TOMLIN

Animal Eat Food Funny Myself
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
LILY TOMLIN

Feeling Imagination Myself

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