Fran Lebowitz Quotes
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.
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The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.
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This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
