Lily Tomlin Quotes
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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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I hate competition.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.
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We must be sure to be governed by inner principle and not outer pressure.
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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.
