Max Lerner Quotes
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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Remember, 'Even this will pass away.'
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
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When you do one thing, people think it's right or wrong. Maybe half-half.
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
