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.
LILY TOMLINYou are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It’s just a matter of timing. It’s like you’ve marked your territory.
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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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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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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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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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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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