Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
LILY TOMLINInstead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Truth is, I’ve always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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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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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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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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There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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