Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
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And that's the truth!
