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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.
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We think by feeling. What is there to know?
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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If you can stay in love for more than two years, you’re on something.
