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If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
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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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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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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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 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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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
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Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.
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Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
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Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.
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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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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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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
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We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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 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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There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
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