If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
LILY TOMLINDoes your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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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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When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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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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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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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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