Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
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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.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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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.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
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January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.
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The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.
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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
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It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
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Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
