Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
LILY TOMLINThe best mind-altering drug is the truth.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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Even when I’m being funny, I’m deadly serious.
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We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket – The road to success is always under construction.
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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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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.
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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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