I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLINWhat 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.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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You can’t expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it’s a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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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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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Remember we’re all in this alone.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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