I always wanted to be ...

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
 Lily Tomlin

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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There will be sex after death, we just won't be able to feel it.
 Lily Tomlin
People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.
 Lily Tomlin
The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.
 Lily Tomlin
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
 Lily Tomlin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
 Lily Tomlin