Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
LILY TOMLINThere’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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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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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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