Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Karl Liebknecht -
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters -
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Barbara Boxer -
And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
Laura Prepon -
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
Ralph Waite -
I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
Eddy Arnold
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain -
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
Barbra Streisand -
I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
Rand Paul
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
T. C. Boyle -
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
Tammy Baldwin -
Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
Ed Smith -
Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
Rabih Alameddine -
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
Edgar Winter
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Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
Christy Turlington -
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch -
A person who is innocent is extremely humble.
Nirmala Srivastava -
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming -
I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.
Cynthia Nixon -
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
Lewis H. Lapham