Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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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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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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I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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