Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
LILY TOMLINThe best mind-altering drug is the truth.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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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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The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Why isn’t there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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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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If trying harder doesn’t work, try softer.
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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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To me, “sexual freedom” means freedom from having to have sex.
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It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it’s much too confining.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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