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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The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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Celebrate the things that make you individual and unique, and realize that there's no one in this world that looks like you.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
