Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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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 can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in 'Thriller.'
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Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.
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Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
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As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.
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Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
