Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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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We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.
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It's a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.
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I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.
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I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.
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We are all in this together, by ourselves.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.
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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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The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.
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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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I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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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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Remember we're all in this alone.
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People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
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Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.
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Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.
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