Lily Tomlin Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I don't like controversy.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
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I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.
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The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.
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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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The best mind-altering drug is truth.
