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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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Mary Jean Tomlin
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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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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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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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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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.
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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 guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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