Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
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I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
