Lily Tomlin Quotes
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
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If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
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It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
