James Lapine Quotes

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

James Lapine

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• I believe we're the party of small business.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Small

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Success
  • Struggle

• Coffee makes me go crazy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Coffee

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

  

  Fritz Kreisler
  • Deep
  • Moral

• Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Help
  • Moral

• After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Great
  • May
  • Friend

• If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• Sex is the dim echo of that original nakedness, primal, before anything else that is also human; later, isolated in an identity, hidden by it, in insensate because of it, one is a societal human being ruled by conformity and convention, not naked.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Sex
  • Identity

• Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

  

  James Lapine
  • Moral