Max Lerner Quotes
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
