Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Lewis H. Lapham

• Thinking
• Art
• Wealth
• Gallery
• Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

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• I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

  

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• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
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• Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

  

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
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• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

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• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
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• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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  • Home
  • High

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
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• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

  

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• Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.

  

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• Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's mysteries, the only righter of earth's wrongs, and the only cure for worldliness, is heaven. We need an infusion of heaven into our faith and hope that will create a homesickness for that blessed place. God's home is heaven. Eternal life and all good were born there and flourish there. All life, happiness, beauty, and glory are native to the home of God. All this belongs to and awaits the heirs of God in heaven. What a glorious inheritance!

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Moment
  • Victory
  • Dangerous

• I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • People

• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Wealth