If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLIN
LILY TOMLIN
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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Remember we’re all in this alone.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin 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.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin
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I’ve grown tired of playing the warrior In the battle between me And my demons.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown No matter how many storms pass through it, this heart is still a gentle thing.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura If you want to start something great, you need commitment. But if you want to finish that something great, you need consistency.
Alison ButcherAlison Butcher Abundance is my birthright it starts with harvesting my inner light.
Shannon Van AlstShannon Van Alst I believed in the magic we made, but you were the magician and i was merely your puppet on stage.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia Eternity is vague. Let me fill in the blanks with you.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt Action is the key that solves all your problems.
Abel StarcAbel Starc His promises looked so promising that she just ignored the blatant truths.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It’s an adventure, a dream…
ShakiraShakira Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell When you’re just an actor, you do your role, and then you’re in your trailer. It’s not as hands on as when you’re directing. You live and breathe it.
Jason MomoaJason Momoa You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes
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