Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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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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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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