Fran Lebowitz Quotes
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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While brands slowly transform the experience of campus life for undergraduates, another kind of takeover is under way at the institutional research level. All over the world, university campuses are offering their research facilities, and priceless academic credibility, for the brands to use as they please.
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
