Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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I'm what you call a Depression sailor.
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Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.
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It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.
