9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
LILY TOMLINThe larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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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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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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