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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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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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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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If you can't be direct, why be?
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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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