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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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If you can't be direct, why be?
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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.
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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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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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.
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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.
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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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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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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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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.
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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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