Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
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I think that when it comes to issues of trade, I think it is important for us to be in favor of trade, but I also think it is important to make sure that we are putting in place the labor standards, the environmental standards, that are going to provide some of a fighting chance for American workers.
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I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.
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We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.
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Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
