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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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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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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I don't like allegories.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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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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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Nowadays, there is a new trend that has started. Up to assembly election results, they were targeting Modi. Now it is very difficult for them to target Modi. So now you must have read so many articles, so many discussions on the TV: 'there's something wrong with the people of Gujarat'. This has the sic started!
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There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.
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I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
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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.
