Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
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The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
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I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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'The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penological theories....Common criminals...can best be dealt with on a purely curative basis. Kill the criminal reflex, that’s all.'
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No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
