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Great Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
- Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease…
- If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.
- When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key.…
- Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.
- Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
- Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand.…
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong