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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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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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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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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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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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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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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 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, 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 life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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 mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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