Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
FRAN LEBOWITZThe opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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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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If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
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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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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.
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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 conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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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.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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