Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.
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The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
