Fran Lebowitz Quotes
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
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To lead people walk behind them.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
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We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
