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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Funny

“People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything.”

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Happy

“In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.”

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Funny

“Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.”

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Angry

“In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.”

Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Philosophical

“People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.”

Neil Gaiman Author
Courageous

“Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”

Neil Gaiman Author
Inspired

“In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when people leave this world there's a corresponding moment of joy when a new baby comes into this world. That first wail is-well, it's magic, isn't it? Perhaps it's a hard thing to say, but joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together. I think we should all take a moment to meditate on that.”

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Neil Gaiman Author
Spiritual

“You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.”

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Creative

“We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Philosophical

“There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they've known it all along.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Philosophical

“I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Funny

“I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage it, bring it back to the person, and make them laugh at themselves. I can make people laugh during my talks because they didn't come to have me make them laugh. It's added value. So my job is way easier than that of a professional comic.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Motivated

“People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.”

Neil Gaiman Author
Funny

“If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.”

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Marc Marcel Businessman
Wise

“Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.”

Marcel Proust Novelist
Philosophical

“Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.”

Marcel Proust Novelist
Philosophical

“Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.”