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.
Quotes to Explore
-
With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
-
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
-
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
-
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.
-
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
-
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!
-
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.
-
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.
-
I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
-
The world wants to like America.
-
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
-
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
-
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
-
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
-
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.
-
So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.
-
I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.
-
I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
-
On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.
-
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
