Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.
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Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
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The team was supported by the fans, and the city was committed to a new building. But that wasn't good enough for Walter O'Malley. He had a better deal, and he passed up a good deal for a better one. I don't think that was right, because ownership of a ballclub is at least a semi-public trust.
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We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
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I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!
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As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.
