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STATUS QUOtes — 20220114

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.” — Max Lerner

“Good advice at the wrong time is bad advice. Life is full of seasons and each season has different requirements. Know what season you are in, and you can better identify which ideas to utilize.” — James Clear

“There are precious things you can’t pack and take with you, like the all-pervasive fragrance of honeysuckle.” — Catherine Marshall

“The best fame is a writer’s fame: It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210118

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“To be amused by what you read —
that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
— C. E. Montague —

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“If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.” — Noam Chomsky

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” — Thomas Sowell

“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.” — Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“About one-third of the people in the street in New York City have a yoga mat. That alone would keep me from yoga. Carrying around a little rolled-up rug…. You know, New York used to be much more fashionable than that.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200616

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“I don’t look for bliss, just contentment.” — Alison Krauss

“‘No’ and ‘Yes’ are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.” — Baltasar Gracian

“If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.” — Karl Jung

“The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180326

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“Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, and taking the tartar sauce with you.” — Zig Ziglar

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” — Alan Lamein

“We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” — Robert Brault

“Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.” — Fran Lebowitz

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171020

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“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” — Confucius

“Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.” — Pierre Beaumarchais

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.” — Wilma Rudolph

“The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.” — Fran Lebowitz

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170503

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“Be sincere, be brief, be seated.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The things that made you weird as a kid make you great today.” — James Victore

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck

“I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170225

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“Love and a cough cannot be hid.” — George Herbert

“You can’t lose what you never had, you cant keep what’s not yours, and you can’t hold on to something that doesn’t want to stay.” — Damon Suede, Bad Idea

“A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.” — Mary Lou Retton

“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170102

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“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.” — Henry Moore

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis D. Brandeis

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you’ve failed by default.” — J. K. Rowling

“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20161122

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“Even a dog knows the difference between being tripped-over and kicked.” — Proverb

“A Stone is broken by the last stroke of Hammer. This doesn’t mean that the 1st Stroke is useless. Success is the result of continuous and persistent efforts!.” — Unknown

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown

“A salad is not a meal. It is a style.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160712

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“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.” — William Shakespeare

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” — Saul Bellow

“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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