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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
Lily Tomlin
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Lily Tomlin
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 1
Actress
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Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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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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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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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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If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you can't be direct, why be?
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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 think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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