Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.Lewis H. Lapham
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
Wendell Pierce -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo -
I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
Victor Cruz -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie
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I have a great office.
R. L. Stine -
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
Xavier Becerra -
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
Maisie Williams -
The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
Garry Marshall
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
Nargis Fakhri -
I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
Hansika Motwani -
I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
Mackenzie Astin -
When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
Uday Kotak -
It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
Frances Farmer -
The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
Eden Hazard
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Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.
Jay McInerney -
The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something you really like. And it does sometimes take a minute.
Debra Granik -
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
Aristotle -
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.
Lewis H. Lapham