Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.Lewis H. Lapham
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
Patricia Marx -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper -
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
Quincy Jones
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
Rajiv Ouseph -
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye -
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
Halsey -
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
Carlos Ghosn
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
Karan Johar -
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
Salman Rushdie -
Writing has never been that simple for me.
Pat Conroy -
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Aaron Copland -
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle
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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
Weird Al Yankovic -
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
Nathaniel Branden -
Technology has given us access to the world and its sea of content, allowing us to never speak to another person if we don't want to.
Angela Ahrendts -
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
James Cameron -
It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!
David Copperfield -
If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.
Lewis H. Lapham