I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLINMy 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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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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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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