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I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
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Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
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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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I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.
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[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
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Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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When we were young, we knew things. We knew basic history, even as it related to fashion. Now, when something reappears, an 18 year old has no clue that it's a revival. Despite the fact that they're almost always online they don't get references. I think that's part of why visual things are becoming so derivative.
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Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.
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