Max Lerner Quotes

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.

Max Lerner

• Character
• Energy
• Stupid
• Censorship

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• I don't want to be a bust.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Want
  • Bust

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Long
  • Business
  • Name

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Attention
  • Sound
  • Influence

• How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Small
  • Security
  • Snow

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Should
  • Sin

• I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Single
  • Child

• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • People
  • Magic
  • Sea

• Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Focus
  • Goal
  • Taught

• I think life is a chain of events.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Life Is A

• The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
  • Real
  • Character

• The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

  

  Brian Tee
  • Great
  • Character

• There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power

  

  Dave Hampton
  • Energy
  • Survival
  • Renewable

• In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Stupid