Max Lerner Quotes
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
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The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.
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Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
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My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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Did I suffer from depression? Yes, a little, from time to time. Yes. … I'm not as depressed as I was. I get depressed now and then but not very much anymore. … At the height of it it was just God-awful. It was really bad.
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Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.
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You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
