Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

Lewis H. Lapham

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• We propose first to expand credit in order to create demand. That new and greater demand must, of course, be met by a new and greater supply of goods, or all the evils of inflation and price rise will result. Here our Socialist planning must enter in. We must see that more goods are forthcoming to meet the new demand.

  

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• The disaster-makers always get away, while the innocent are always punished.

  

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• I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.

  

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• I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

  

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• I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'

  

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• I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

  

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• I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

  

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• Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

  

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• I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.

  

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• Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.

  

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• I'm just not a natural teacher.

  

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• Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.

  

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• When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated.

  

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• Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

  

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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

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• Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

  

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• I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

  

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• The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Framed
  • Temperament
  • Distrust