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.
LILY TOMLINIf beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves; I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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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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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn’t really happened, but it has come closer.
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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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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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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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