Max Lerner Quotes
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
