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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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I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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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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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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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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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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Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
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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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I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
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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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