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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
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Mary Jean Tomlin
Mary Jean Lily Tomlin
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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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The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.
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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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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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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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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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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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After all, in private, we're all misfits
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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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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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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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Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
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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 bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.
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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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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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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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Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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