If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
LILY TOMLINSometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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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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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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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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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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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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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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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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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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