Fran Calverase quote: "From the very beginning, the fuss that the community raised over the process in the beginning made a difference, not the least of which was cutting it in half."

That's where the fox is in the hen house. They can make data appear how they want it to appear.
FRAN CALVERASE

No matter how hard they seemed to have closed the door, somebody higher up can say you should have l...
FRAN CALVERASE

A lot depends on financing.
FRAN CALVERASE

We've gotten the word out. Making it in middle of afternoon makes it tough on our members who must w...
FRAN CALVERASE

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
FRAN

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
FRAN TARKENTON

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
FRAN DRESCHER

Television isn't my career. Business is.
FRAN TARKENTON

What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thi...
FRAN TARKENTON

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it&...
FRAN TARKENTON

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team b...
FRAN TARKENTON

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
FRAN TARKENTON

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American busin...
FRAN TARKENTON

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ...
FRAN TARKENTON

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn'...
FRAN TARKENTON

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can y...
FRAN TARKENTON

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
FRAN TARKENTON

Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
FRAN TARKENTON

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts realit...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

You're only as good as your last haircut.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and w...
FRAN KRANZ

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be ...
FRAN KRANZ

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the wo...
FRAN KRANZ

I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role,...
FRAN KRANZ

It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this ...
FRAN KRANZ

When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly maki...
FRAN KRANZ

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a...
FRAN KRANZ

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really pu...
FRAN KRANZ

I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
FRAN KRANZ

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but &...
FRAN KRANZ

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
FRAN DRESCHER

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
FRAN DRESCHER

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
FRAN DRESCHER

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock co...
FRAN DRESCHER

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
FRAN DRESCHER

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my all...
FRAN DRESCHER

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
FRAN DRESCHER

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
FRAN DRESCHER

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.
FRAN DRESCHER

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point ...
FRAN DRESCHER

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
FRAN DRESCHER

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I coul...
FRAN DRESCHER

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events...
FRAN DRESCHER

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really he...
FRAN DRESCHER

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
FRAN DRESCHER

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
FRAN DRESCHER

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
FRAN DRESCHER

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
FRAN DRESCHER

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
FRAN DRESCHER

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
FRAN DRESCHER

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
FRAN DRESCHER

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
FRAN DRESCHER

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reac...
FRAN TARKENTON

Think before you speak. Read before you think.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the id...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

None of us really pushes hard enough.
FRAN TARKENTON

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not ha...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
FRAN TARKENTON

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
FRAN TARKENTON

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not a...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hol...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope fo...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary i...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If you're going to America, bring your own food.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove othe...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sand...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Only the little people pay taxes.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can ho...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merel...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jock...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear th...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to ch...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he f...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointme...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completel...
FRAN KRANZ

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonde...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airpo...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic natur...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone i...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behav...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
FRAN DRESCHER

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enou...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simp...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and y...
FRAN DRESCHER

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are ne...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the '...
FRAN TARKENTON

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk joc...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

polite conversation is rarely either
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

This is the good news we have been waiting for!
FRAN ALLEN

The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer ...
FRAN ALLEN

It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.
FRAN ALLEN

So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremen...
FRAN ALLEN

It's a question of how you divide the forage pie. It always has been and always will be. There are s...
FRAN ACKLEY

It's on the horizon. We can do the job as long as the funding stays consistent.
FRAN ACKLEY

I think we're going to be at our magic number in two years. Then we will just have to remove yearly ...
FRAN ACKLEY

We recognized a few years ago that we can't adopt our way out of the overpopulation problem.
FRAN ACKLEY

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a go...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Favorite animal: steak.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and read...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hol...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

My favorite animal is steak.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the co...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, t...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage o...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear th...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

This is a huge relief. A huge relief. I've got a big grin on my face, and I have to keep pinching my...
FRAN BAGENAL

Dick Cheney is a very good leader, and I have a whole lot of respect for him.
FRAN DUNPHY

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The Yale guys really turned up the screws defensively. We needed to be more patient. We needed to be...
FRAN DUNPHY

You're only has good as your last haircut.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Yes he did, Scooter -- just look in the Pitcher of Venice and you'll see that exact quote.
FRAN HEALY

His impact on me has been great. He's been a great friend and someone I have counted on for counsel ...
FRAN DUNPHY

It's been tough out there getting to the net with the hooking and the holding and the slashes that g...
FRAN GOW

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Don’t allow your ego to ruin your life. The spirit does not operate in ego!
FRAN LEIGH

This could be the end of unwanted pop-up ads.
FRAN MAIER

Polite conversation is rarely either.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for televis...
FRAN DRESCHER

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house
FRAN LEBOWITZ

The area is a good area. It's going to boom someday.
FRAN DAVIS

I think it's beginning to sink in. More and more faculty are reporting plagiarism.
FRAN COHEN

Restraint is very important when one graduates,
FRAN KATZANEK

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I did do acupuncture, which helped me a lot to reduce the internal inflammation.
FRAN DRESCHER

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
FRAN DRESCHER

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
FRAN DRESCHER

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
FRAN DRESCHER

Ginger is delicate and fragile, and Ginger is looking for her partner. So it fit.
FRAN WALLIS

I've told the team very explicitly: We're approaching this game like any other. Our approach is the ...
FRAN MCCAFFERY

I open the refrigerator. I decide against the half a lemon and jar of Gulden’s mustard and on the ...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Sarcasm: what they have in New York instead of jacuzzis.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I must take issue with the term “a mere child,” for it has been my invariable experience that th...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possib...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable. T...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

Think before you speak, read before you think.
FRAN LEBOWITZ

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweate...
FRAN LEBOWITZ

From the very beginning, the fuss that the community raised over the process in the beginning made a difference, not the least of which was cutting it in half.

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From the very beginning, the fuss that the community raised over the process in the beginning made a difference, not the least of which was cutting it in half.

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