If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
LILY TOMLINDoes your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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 trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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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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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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