Lily Tomlin Quotes

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Lily Tomlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 1, 1939

Topics

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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

John Edgar Wideman

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I think the best way to deal with fitting in is to be yourself. It sounds hard, but in the end, it's much easier than pretending to be something you're not.

Meaghan Jette Martin

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Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

Ann Beattie

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When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

Michael Graves

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I'm happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.

Amy Jo Martin

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Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

Tom Shales

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That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

Mary Harris Jones

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We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

Mika

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In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

Dorothy Stratten

MenManWillWayNeverJust

If you go in RCA A, you'll realize that it's not just a Nashville thing. It's a studio that belongs to music.

Chris Stapleton

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This digital world is what you make of it in the end.

Ciara

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Being recognised by Guinness World Records in their 60th year is a real honour. It's also a real privilege for me to be positioned beside such sporting greats.

Brian O'Driscoll

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