Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
LILY TOMLINIf you can’t be direct, why be?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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 best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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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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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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