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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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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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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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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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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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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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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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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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