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After all, in private, we're all misfits
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
Film Actor
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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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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I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.
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I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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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I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
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Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.
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