Max Lerner Quotes
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Good design should be honest.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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Humanity has understood nothing.
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I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
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I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
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Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
