Max Lerner Quotes
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
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I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
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I don't know if I'll ever accomplish most of my dreams - I have so many.
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I have an intensive relationship with the thing that I'm working on, and I hope that comes through. It's better for me to not worry about the things I can't fix once they're done.
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I'm not a big fan of cold weather; that's why I moved to Vegas! Dave Keuning Weather Vegas Big Big Fan Being from Iowa, I can tell you that Vegas is not normal. Dave Keuning You I Can Vegas Tell That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that. Dave Keuning Singing Perfect Like Knowing I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me. Dave Keuning Love Music Me You Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous. Dave Keuning Dangerous Band Themselves Gonna I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
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The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
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A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
