What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
LILY TOMLINSometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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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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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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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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