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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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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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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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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
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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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Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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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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We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
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If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?
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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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