Growing up in Michigan was fine, until I realized where I was.
LILY TOMLINInfinity is just time on an ego trip.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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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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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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what’s current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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What goes up must come down. But don’t expect it to come down where you can find it.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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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