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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.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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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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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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I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
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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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Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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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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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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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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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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