Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 8, 1935

Topics

BusinessSportsInnocencePerfect

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

Storm Reid

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What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

Tom Hooper

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I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

Tom Holland

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Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

Rodrigo Santoro

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Florida is very difficult to have name ID... That's why statewide incumbents usually get reelected in Florida.

Ron DeSantis

NameWhyDifficultFloridaGetID

I've got lots of problems. Being gay isn't one of them.

Mary Gauthier

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People who know me know that I'm always interested in an honest, civil exchange of views, and I'm not some Hollywood liberal know-nothing.

Mike Farrell

PeopleMeKnowHollywoodAlwaysWho

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Don Shula

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Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.

Dina Titus

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I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

Chris Hemsworth

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It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

Craig Charles

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