“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
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Famous Lily Tomlin Quotes
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”
“No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.”
“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.”
“I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.”
“I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.”
“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
“What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.”
“Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.”
“I especially love 'Web Therapy' and I did 'Eastbound and Down' too. I had a lot of fun doing that.”
“I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.”
“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”
“Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?”
“Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.”
“Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.”
“The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?”
“What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.”
“I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.”
“There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.”
“To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.”