Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
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Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.
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Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
