Lily Tomlin Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Book, Television Watching, Watching Tv

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• I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

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  Growing Up, Dirty, Mean

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• Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

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  Exercise, People, Alcohol

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• Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

  Lily Tomlin

  Mind, Doe, Teflon

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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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Nurse, Would Be, World

  "Saturday Night Live", November 25, 1975.

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• Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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• What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

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  Golf

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• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

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  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

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  People, Lifestyle, Consumers

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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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  Thinking, Two, Laughing

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• Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

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  Integrity, Past, Differences

  "Modern Scream". Comedy album by Lily Tomlin, 1975.

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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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  Next Day, Wake Up, Existential

  "Thoroughly modern Lily". Interview with Alonso Duralde, "The Advocate", March 15, 2005.

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• We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

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  Witty, Sex, Believe

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• I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• After all, in private, we're all misfits

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  Misfits

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• Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

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  Names, Feet, Special

  "Saturday Night Live", November 25, 1975.

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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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  Sex, Dirty, Believe

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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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  People, Different, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.

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  Sorry, Devil's Advocate, New Yorkers

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• Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

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  Intelligent, Missing, Form

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• 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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  Funny, Sarcastic, Eyeglasses

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• There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.

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  Love, Sex, Able

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• There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

  Lily Tomlin

  Fun, Humorous, Skins

  "Fictional character: Judith Beasley". "The Incredible Shrinking Woman", 1981.

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• There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.

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  Meaningful, Ends

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• Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch.

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  Reality, Hunches, Collectives

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