Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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If you give Chip a boundary, he's going to break that boundary. If you give him a rule, he's not going to follow it. And if you tell him, 'You can't go over this line,' he's going to put his toe over it.
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The divide between me and the modern world is growing further because I to a larger degree manage to rid myself of my dependence on the modern world. If the modern world collapsed tomorrow I would be fine, and I see so many others who would not be.
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I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.
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If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.
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No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.
