Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
LILY TOMLINThe larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They’d eaten each other.
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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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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If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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