Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.
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We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.
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My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
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Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.
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The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.