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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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution.
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War is a defeat for humanity.
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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.
