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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
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
Consumers
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Lifestyles

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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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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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When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy then you get two feelings for the price of one.
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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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If you can't be direct, why be?
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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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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I personally think we developed language because of our deep 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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I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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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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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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