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.

Lily Tomlin

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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, 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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• 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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• 'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'

  

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• Somalia is so bad that making a mess improves the place.

  

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• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

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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.

  

  Lily Tomlin