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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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Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
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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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What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.
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You are what you think ... geez, that's frightening.
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Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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