If truth is beauty, how come no one has her hair done in a library?

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About Lily Tomlin

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Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress and comedian. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting across stage and screen. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy...

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No matter how cynical you get, it's almost impossible to keep up.

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

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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

After all, in private we’re all misfits.

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.

—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Wait for You

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

—Francis Bacon

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The grandeur of nature is only the beginning. Beyond the grandeur is God.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Stop thinking this is all there is.… Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral.… Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel.… Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious… there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable.

—Mark Morford

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20 Dec 2014 Added