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Lily Tomlin

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Culture Expression Myself Social Type
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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Leadership Reality Touch
After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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One Liner Privacy
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner 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.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Complain Deep Development Language Need Personal
My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
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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Greatness Growth World
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
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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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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Born Growth Myself Place
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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Acceptance Creation Kind Myself People
If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Hypocrisy Life Meaning
We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Ourselves Togetherness
What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Audience Brain Knowledge Myself Praise Thinking
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Myself Success World Worry
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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Place Sorry Yourself
We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Care Company Phone
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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God Ourselves Prayer Talk
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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Better Creature Death Evolution Laughter Survive Worth
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Collection One Liner Perspective Reality

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