Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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Caffeine is a good thing.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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I have a relatively good track record.
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The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.
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Honestly, I don't think that the policies and issues surrounding guns will be easily figured out in our country, but we need to take a close look, and we need to have a conversation around those issues.
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I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.
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I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
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As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.
