Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. But it was also a pistol, and it went right with Texas.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.
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I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
