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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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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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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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.
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If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
