Margo Kaufman Quotes

#1. One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.

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#2. But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life.

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#3. My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.

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#4. I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep.People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

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#5. Anyone who believes that men and women have the same mind-set hasn't lived on earth. A man thinks that everything he does is wonderful, that the sun rises and sets around him. But a woman has doubts.

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#6. Blueprints are like pets and children
difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours.

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#7. I asked my vet what kind of dog he'd get. He told me, 'I'd get a Chihuahua, because when it died, I wouldn't care.

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#8. House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.

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#9. With a car there is always a problem.

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#10. Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling.

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#11. It seems to be a rule of life that the less qualified you are to give counsel, the more counsel you give.

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#12. I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A.M.

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#13. No effort based on love is wasted.

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#14. The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

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#15. We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.

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#16. Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.

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#17. Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.

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#18. Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery ...

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#19. Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.

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#20. Trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.

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#21. Truth is funnier than most things you can make up.

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#22. Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.

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#23. I think bad taste should be a felony.

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#24. A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.

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