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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
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Mary Jean Tomlin
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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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What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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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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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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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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Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?
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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 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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
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Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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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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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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