James Lapine Quotes
We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man’s estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.
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If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.
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Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people.
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I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.
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We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.
