Max Lerner Quotes
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Those who go along get along.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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The media is controlled.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.
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I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.
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Imagine someone telling you that by taking a certain drug you could win a single event and be three times richer, famous for life in your country-and it won't hurt anyone. What would you say? There's a wide range of ethics among the riders.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
