"Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question."

-- Fran Lebowitz

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Progress Quotes

“We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others”
“Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.”
“Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.”
“Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?”
“That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, Iâ€™m afraid I already knew that about you.”
“If you take Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, their work didn't even relate to what we were trying to do, because they were moving in a different direction, both of them coming out of Europe and the Viennese school of design, which Lucie came from, and Coper learning from Lucie and then springing off on his own when she encouraged him to explore more widely. So he created his own work instead of just working for her and doing her forms. So that was a wonderful thing.”
“You have to learn the language of Hamlet.”
“I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.”

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