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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
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Mary Jean Tomlin
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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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You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.
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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
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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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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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