"If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal."

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Source : FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Aug 02, 2010

Fran Lebowitz

#Culture Quotes #Influence Quotes #Homosexual Quotes

“The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.77, M.E. Sharpe
“I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn”
“True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.”

Source : Steven Brust (1999). “The Book of Jhereg”, p.58, Penguin
“If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.”
“When we finally had a cast and could see what they could do, here was an opportunity to go back and modify things. We didn't actually do that much modifying, but we did enough to make it feel as if they fit in their own skin, and we got a lot of good input from them. They're a terrific cast. They worked really hard.”
“What happened, and what might have happened?”
“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.”

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