There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
LILY TOMLINIf I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
More Lily Tomlin Quotes
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If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Wouldn’t it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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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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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
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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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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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There will be sex after death, we just won’t be able to feel it.
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After all, in private, we’re all misfits.
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You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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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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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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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.
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