The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
LILY TOMLINThe trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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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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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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I try to be cynical, but it’s so hard to keep up.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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I worry about kids today – because of the sexual revolution, they’re going to grow up and never know what “dirty” means.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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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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