Max Lerner Quotes
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
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With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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The world wants to like America.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
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Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.
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Violence is the effort to maintain and restore a weakened psyche. (p. 377)
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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
