There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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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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