If you can’t be direct, why be?
LILY TOMLINWell, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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 still believe that sex is dirty. It’s just that now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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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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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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 you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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