Lily Tomlin Quotes
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?
Quotes to Explore
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.
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Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
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A covetous man's penny is a stone.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
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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?
