Lily Tomlin Quotes on Society
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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 truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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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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Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?
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Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.
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I never officially came out in any kind of really public way. I just always lived very simply and openly, but the press has never made a big fuss about me or said anything to me... In some ways I don't even identify myself in any kind of limited way. I don't want to. I wish none of us had to. I wish we were just people.
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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them.
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The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year, everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.