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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
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
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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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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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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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If you can't be direct, why be?
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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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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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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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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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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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