Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

Lewis H. Lapham

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• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

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• I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.

  

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• If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.

  

  Laura Osnes
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• My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

  

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• Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  

  Ted Turner
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• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
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• The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!

  

  Beau Bridges
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• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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• I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

  

  Valerie Simpson
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• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
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• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
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• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

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• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
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• Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
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• You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.

  

  Don Shula

• I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

  

  Kim Weston

• The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
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