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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.
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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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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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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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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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