Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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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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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
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I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people; a maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a Bugs Bunny suit at the time.
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Got any excuses tonight Roy?
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The leading cause of death is birth.
