70+ Lily Tomlin Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

If I had known what it would be like to have it all – I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Fame Myself Settle Willing
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
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Best Drugs Mindset One Liner Truth
I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.
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Myself People Profit Thinking War
What 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.
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Boredom Hide Reveal Worst
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
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Deep Race Trouble Win Yourself
Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Missing Opportunity
Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Help Myself Thinking Trouble Worst
Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.
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Alcohol Control Drugs Exercise People
If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?
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Beautiful Hairs Library Woman
The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.
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Moral People Photograph
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
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Ego Infinity One Liner Time Trip
There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.
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End Life Regret Right Sad Yourself
It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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Change Comedy Humor Present Ridicule
Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Feeling Mindset Yourself
You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.
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Fear Thinking Yourself
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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Death Laughter Smart Survive Work
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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Education Empathy Growth Human Kind Myself Politics Religion
If you can’t be direct, why be?
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Direct Yourself
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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Culture Fabric Skin
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
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Feeling Imagination Myself
Remember we’re all in this alone.
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Alone One Liner Remember
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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History Listening People Repeat Start Stop
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Creation Expression Type Way
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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Alone Feeling Heart Mindset Myself Night
If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.
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Book Hypocrisy Reading View Yourself
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Career Important Myself Regret
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Down Fast relief Slow Try

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