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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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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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.
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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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Houston, we have a good deploy. Chandra is ready to open the eyes of X-ray astronomy to the world.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
