If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
FRAN LEBOWITZOriginal thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
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