Lily Tomlin Quotes
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
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I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.
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I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.
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With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
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What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.
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The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
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Même au point de vue des plus insignifiantes choses de la vie, nous ne sommes pas un tout matériellement constitué, identique pour tout le monde et dont chacun n'a qu'à aller prendre connaissance comme d'un cahier des charges ou d'un testament; notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres.
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On the religious themes of The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here.**Interview with Revolver Magazine, March 2013.
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I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.
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I think 15 to 18 title defenses is something that would be in the record books forever.
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I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.
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I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.
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Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
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Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.
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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
