Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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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Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn’t want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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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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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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 trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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