Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
LILY TOMLINThe best mind-altering drug is the truth.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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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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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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The road to success is always under construction.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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