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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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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Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
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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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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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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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Thank God kids never mean well
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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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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.
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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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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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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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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.
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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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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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