Max Lerner Quotes
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
Famke Janssen
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
J. C. Chandor
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
Warren Christopher
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
Ferdinand Mount
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
V. S. Naipaul
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
D. B. Weiss
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
Nandan Nilekani
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
Rachel Roy
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
Rachel Sklar
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Beatrice Wood
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
Adam Jones
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
Imelda May
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
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Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story.
Flannery O'Connor
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[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.
Hal Abelson
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He smiled, she smiled, they knew right away, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives, for a moment the whole world revolved around one boy & one girl.
Floyd Elliot Wray
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The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
Max Lerner