You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
LILY TOMLINIt’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
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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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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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