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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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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 truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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