Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
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I love my sleep.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.
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If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.
