Lily Tomlin Quotes
When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
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What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
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If you want to earn more, learn more.
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I looooove Miss Piggy.
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.
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I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
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For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
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ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.
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Extremism catches hold when all hope is gone, when a human being has been stripped of everything except hatred.
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Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
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I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
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Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
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When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.
