Max Lerner Quotes

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Max Lerner

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• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Most
  • Miserable
  • Hardest

• The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Media
  • Talk

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Giving

• Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Movie
  • Course
  • Constant

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • High
  • Always
  • Expectations

• We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Believe
  • War
  • Peace

• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Give
  • Take

• When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Joy
  • Hands
  • Got

• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Reality
  • Man
  • Patient

• I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 'Cause I've got friends in low placesWhere the whiskey drownsAnd the beer chases my blues away.And I'll be okay.I'm not big on social graces;Think I'll slip on down to the oasis.Oh, I've got friends in low places.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Friends
  • Beer
  • Whiskey

• Father, fatherWe don't need to escalate.You see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate.You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • War
  • Father
  • Today

• Every body that is moved continues to move so long as the impression of the force of its mover is retained in it, therefore the movement of this wing with violence... will come to move the whole bird with it until the impetus of the moved air has been consumed.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Long
  • Violence
  • Air

• I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

  

  Rick James
  • Life
  • Work
  • History

• At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I've had fans and friends in the business say, 'Oh man, you've made it.' I still don't feel like I've made it. I still feel like I'm as good as my last show, as good as my last single.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Good
  • Business
  • Friends

• I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

  

  Patty Hearst
  • Trying

• The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

  

  Max Lerner