Max Lerner Quotes
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
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It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.
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No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
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It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
