Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.
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I think great songs can come from anywhere and you constantly have to be able to look out for those. I think a lot of the times people will try too hard to write everything themselves and therefor miss out on great songs that way.
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People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
