Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
