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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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.
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If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
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I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.
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To repeat to yourself a thousand times a day: 'Nothing on Earth has any worth,' to keep finding yourself at the same point, to circle stupidly as a top, eternally...
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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.
