Max Lerner Quotes
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.Max Lerner
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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.
Umera Ahmad -
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
Abraham Polonsky -
I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
Carla Gugino -
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.
Vanessa Brown -
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.
Harold S. Geneen -
Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
Rachelle Lefevre
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
Malik Bendjelloul -
I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
Patrick Carman -
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.
Sam Walton -
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.
Garrett Hedlund -
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.
Florence Nightingale -
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.
T. S. Eliot
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
Walter Bagehot -
Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Larry Wall -
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.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
Ludovico Ariosto -
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin
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Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Scott Thompson -
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken -
What's the point? You can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.
Michael Jackson -
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.
Walt Disney -
Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.
Nicole Lapin -
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner