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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The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
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How dark are all the ways of god to man!
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Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.
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When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short. Of course we're not laughing . . . . Nobody laughs at the sight of their own blood.
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Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
