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.
Lewis H. Lapham
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I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. Abrams
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
Caitlin Doughty
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.
E. M. Forster
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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.'
Haile Gebrselassie
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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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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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.
Tabitha King
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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.
Wendy Kopp
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
Pat Robertson
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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.
Rachel Tucker
