Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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People take things so seriously.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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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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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Time stays, we go.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
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People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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Since 1960 or thereabouts, when the Beatles and feminism came to power and destroyed the civiiisation I was rather fond of...
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
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Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.
