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.
LILY TOMLINYou are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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 beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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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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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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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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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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The road to success is always under construction.
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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it’s imposssible to keep up.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
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