Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLINDoes your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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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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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 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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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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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If evolution was worth its salt, it should’ve evolved something better than ‘survival of the fittest.’ I think a better idea would be ‘survival of the wittiest.’ At least, that way, creatures that didn’t survive could’ve died laughing.
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