Lily Tomlin Quotes - Page 3

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• Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch.

  Lily Tomlin

  Reality, Hunches, Collectives

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• The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

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  Swings, People, Moral

  "Thoroughly Modern Lily". Interview with Alonso Duralde, March 15, 2005.

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• I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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  Funny, Communication, Thinking

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• Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

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  Science, Ego, Ego Trip

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• Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.

  Lily Tomlin

  Lying, Made, Know How

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• If you can't be direct, why be?

  Lily Tomlin

  Direct, Ifs

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• Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I would set time aside each day to do awe-robics. Because at the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

  Lily Tomlin

  Song, Sweet, Heart

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• Every day I read the newspapers, and no matter how cynical I get, it's imposssible to keep up.

  Lily Tomlin

  Cynical, Matter, Newspapers

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• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

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  Funny, Success, Congratulations

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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.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Cost, Reason

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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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• Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

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  Growing Up, Michigan, Fine

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• Remember we're all in this alone.

  Lily Tomlin

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Lonely

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• Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

  Lily Tomlin

  Different, Comedy, Reason

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. April 26, 2006.

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• If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

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  Hair, Library, Done

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• We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Humorous, Technology

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• I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Life Is

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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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Men, Trying, Consciousness

  Variety Magazine, 2003.

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• To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.

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  Sex, Mean, Feminist

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• When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

  Lily Tomlin

  Prayer, Psychosis, Speak

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• If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

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  Life Is, Ifs, Meaningless

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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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Religious, Real, Feelings

  Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

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• I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

  Lily Tomlin

  War, Thinking, People

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• Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

  Lily Tomlin

  Serious, Comedy, Being Funny

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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.

  Lily Tomlin

  Dog, Cat, Suffering

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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