Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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I dig Steve Harvey: he's the suit man. I be checking him out.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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The laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.
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It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.
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I'm a cliche.
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If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.
