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
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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 -
I don't want to be a bust.
Malik Jackson -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
Zoe Kravitz -
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 -
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
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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 -
Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
Walter Murch -
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 -
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 -
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash -
I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
Karl Pilkington
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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 -
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 -
Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
Katarina Witt -
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
Rachel Dratch -
A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
Flann O'Brien -
I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
Nat Wolff
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Damon Knight -
You can't escape from yourself, can you?
Bernard Sumner New Order -
In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.
Chad Kelly -
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
A. E. van Vogt -
We're still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.
Mary Calderone -
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