Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure.
FRAN LEBOWITZWhen you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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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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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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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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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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Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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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 of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
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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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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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