Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Fran Lebowitz

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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Mel Brooks

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I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

Ann Rutherford

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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady.

Tom Landry

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For filmmakers who've made multiple movies, they have experience, but they only have experience of themselves as a filmmaker. Whereas I'm bouncing around from different skill sets: the organizational ability of Ridley Scott to the precision of a Ron Howard to the artistic sensibilities of a Peter Weir... to the scope of a Tom Hooper.

Russell Crowe

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We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

Mohsin Hamid

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To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Milton Sapirstein

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Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell with them, because they have their own little friend groups, with their own complex dynamics, and their own private jokes.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.

Dianne Reeves

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I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

Corey Taylor

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I don't dislike money, but there's only so much money you can use.

Chuck Feeney

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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

Anne Lamott

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That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

Sean Covey

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