Lily Tomlin Quotes

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• What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.
• Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
• I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
• 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…
• 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.
• Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
• If you can't be direct, why be?
• We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
• There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.
• No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.
• To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.
• We are all in this together, by ourselves.
• My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy…
• Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt…
• Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
• In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone
• You are what you think ... geez, that’s frightening....
• 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…
• Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.
• If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

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