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ALAN JAY LERNER You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
ALAN JAY LERNER Why can't a woman be more like a man?
ALAN JAY LERNER It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of chara...
ALAN JAY LERNER Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it so...
ALAN JAY LERNER An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
ALAN JAY LERNER Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
ALAN JAY LERNER It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of c...
ALAN JAY LERNER Almost Like Being in Love
ALAN JAY LERNER I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.
ALAN JAY LERNER A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
ALAN JAY LERNER I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! ...
ALAN JAY LERNER An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
ALAN JAY LERNER Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, ...
ALAN JAY LERNER You're an egghead with two yolks.
ALAN JAY LERNER Men die but an idea does not.
ALAN JAY LERNER You write a hit the same way you write a flop
ALAN JAY LERNER Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but i...
ALAN JAY LERNER With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
ALAN JAY LERNER Why can't a woman be more like a man?
ALAN JAY LERNER An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
ALAN JAY LERNER A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
ALAN JAY LERNER Almost Like Being in Love
ALAN LERNER Men die but an idea does not.
ALAN LERNER I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.
ALAN LERNER You're an egghead with two yolks.
ALAN LERNER A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
ALAN LERNER Why can't a woman be more like a man? / Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; / Eternally noble, ...
ALAN LERNER You write a hit the same way you write a flop
ALAN LERNER An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
ALAN LERNER Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
ALAN LERNER I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! ...
ALAN LERNER Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and reg...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duti...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.
JAY ALAN SEKULOW We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we in...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee wi...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.
JAY ALAN SEKULOW They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of ...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens...
JAY ALAN SEKULOW If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable fo...
RANDY LERNER Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons...
RANDY LERNER We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the ...
RANDY LERNER Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no us...
RANDY LERNER We want to build the club on our attendances. We don't want to pay all our TV money straight out...
RANDY LERNER While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get...
RANDY LERNER In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When w...
RANDY LERNER Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
JAIME LERNER When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all d...
SANDRA LERNER Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
MAX LERNER We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we c...
MAX LERNER Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call ci...
MAX LERNER I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in whi...
GERDA LERNER The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...
MAX LERNER Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential nee...
GERDA LERNER Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
MAX LERNER When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
MAX LERNER Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...
MAX LERNER The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domes...
GERDA LERNER We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us cease...
MAX LERNER Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
HARRIET LERNER If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.
JAIME LERNER You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end...
MAX LERNER Garbage removal is a citizen responsibility.
JAIME LERNER If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
JAIME LERNER The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you ...
MAX LERNER The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
MAX LERNER The design of a city is like a strange archeology.
JAIME LERNER Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have s...
JAIME LERNER If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate rel...
SANDRA LERNER There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
JAIME LERNER I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
MAX LERNER We can plan and merchandise our business better.
CARYN LERNER If you were to ask me what is one of the things that keeps me up at night, it is how to stay relevan...
CARYN LERNER We heard from our customer that they want deeper and fuller assortments of brands that they recogniz...
CARYN LERNER It will mirror the brands we have in the stores for our adult customer. It's really lifestyle-broad ...
CARYN LERNER The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places whi...
MAX LERNER Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at al...
HARRIET LERNER The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
MAX LERNER Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, ra...
MAX LERNER Often there are not enough adult bodies in a classroom, which boosts the stress level for everyone. ...
CLAIRE LERNER The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...
MAX LERNER I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. Peo...
JAIME LERNER There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess,...
JAIME LERNER The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achi...
MAX LERNER When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
MAX LERNER Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
MAX LERNER When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is n...
MAX LERNER The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History ...
MAX LERNER The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and tri...
MAX LERNER Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...
MAX LERNER A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed t...
MAX LERNER Phil Savage has not been fired, and Phil Savage is not going to be fired.
RANDY LERNER My priority is to give the general manager and head coach all the resources necessary to make the Br...
RANDY LERNER Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
MAX LERNER Because I called myself the heavy hitter, I was implying that other attorneys were not heavy hitters...
GLEN LERNER I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I ...
SANDRA LERNER To reject the word is to reject the human search.
MAX LERNER A world technology means either a world government or world suicide
MAX LERNER To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others
MAX LERNER But a group of toddlers making up a story together is a much richer learning experience than draggin...
CLAIRE LERNER Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of gl...
JAIME LERNER The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to...
HARRIET LERNER My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was in...
SANDRA LERNER Now at rush hour it's impossible to get a taxi. Things have got to change internally in Macau.
WILLIAM LERNER We give the kids insight on how the plane works and take them up. I'd guess about 90 percent have ne...
DAVID LERNER We're always looking for volunteers. It's a high volunteer intensity program. Each child has three v...
ELLEN LERNER All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consid...
BEN LERNER A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
JAIME LERNER Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the numb...
BETSY LERNER I wouldn't want parents to think that they're putting their children at a disadvantage (if they don'...
CLAIRE LERNER We view the acquisition as positive - as we expect it to be accretive and it removes a large barrier...
WILLIAM LERNER Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of viole...
BEN LERNER It's a benefit match for the Root Farm. We are what the Root Farm is.
ELLEN LERNER I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and tell...
BETSY LERNER Loneliness Ends With Love
AL LERNER The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
BEN LERNER Don’t use “below-the-belt” tactics. These include: blam- ing, interpreting, diagnosing, labeli...
HARRIET LERNER The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and tri...
MAX LERNER Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that...
BEN LERNER Free airplane rides are just part of the flight rally. We hope to build one-on-one relationships bet...
DAVID LERNER The best way to say goodbye is through music. And we worked so hard to give this to her in her memor...
DAVID LERNER She chose you for your deficiencies, not in spite of them, a new kind of mating strategy for millenn...
BEN LERNER The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achi...
MAX LERNER I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then t...
JAIME LERNER We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
JAIME LERNER But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one...
BETSY LERNER These new media toys are growing and becoming quite prevalent.
CLAIRE LERNER The Bar said we think that could be a dramatization. How many people are anxious about a big phone l...
GLEN LERNER They said it created anxiety. Does the average person really believe a giant phone is going to land ...
GLEN LERNER The bar told me by calling myself 'The Heavy Hitter,' it was false and misleading because it was sta...
GLEN LERNER And we will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good com...
HARRIET LERNER We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen...
HARRIET LERNER But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
BETSY LERNER Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing ...
BEN LERNER In the present, we still have an image of a girl as sweet and innocent. She's not always that, but s...
LOREN LERNER She has a lot to offer. A lot of natural resources.
LOREN LERNER In the late 19th and into the 20th century, the European image of the girl was very prominent in soc...
LOREN LERNER Let's face it, we're going to have to make some tough decisions and none of us like to have to do th...
LINDA LERNER My next question: What about the McKay scholarships? Those schools don't have any requirements.
LINDA LERNER They still have to have vision, the ability to undertake an ambitious project, to leverage resources...
JOSH LERNER They're really applying the principles of entrepreneurial management even if they're not making a pr...
JOSH LERNER The basic pattern is the more money that comes in, the lower the returns.
JOSH LERNER The probability of VCs investing in a start-up is far less likely than it was in 1999. And that's ba...
JOSH LERNER Silver Lake has been unquestionably the most successful of the current wave of tech buyout groups. T...
JOSH LERNER These are not anarchistic things when you look at successful open-source projects—there is real str...
JOSH LERNER The patent system is a trade-off. We get the 'good' of an invention in exchange for the 'bad' of a t...
JOSH LERNER Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any pa...
JOSH LERNER It's clearly more challenging for entrepreneurs seeking VC funding for the first time.
JOSH LERNER Analyses of facial expressions revealed that the more fear individuals displayed in response to the ...
JENNIFER LERNER We didn't focus on how they felt after they bought things. Instead we focused on what led up to the ...
JENNIFER LERNER We're showing for the first time that incidental emotions from one situation can exert a causal effe...
JENNIFER LERNER Anger can sometimes be adaptive. We're showing for the first time that when you are in a situation t...
JENNIFER LERNER These are the most exciting data I've ever collected.
JENNIFER LERNER Having that sense of anger leads people to actually feel some power in what otherwise is a maddening...
JENNIFER LERNER Here getting emotional is not bad for you if you look at the case of anger. The more they are displa...
JENNIFER LERNER We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'
JAIME LERNER A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
JAIME LERNER The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and cultu...
JAIME LERNER I think [the science] is actually ahead of schedule,
RICHARD LERNER Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of...
HARRIET GOLDHOR LERNER Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly fli...
EDWARD M. LERNER One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can...
EDWARD M. LERNER Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii,...
EDWARD M. LERNER History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics a...
EDWARD M. LERNER Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cau...
EDWARD M. LERNER What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-...
EDWARD M. LERNER Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Be...
EDWARD M. LERNER The challenge - and much of the fun - of writing in an established future history lies in incorporat...
EDWARD M. LERNER When you get really mad, you often have very large cardiovascular responses.
DR. JENNIFER LERNER When you get really mad, you also have really large cardiovascular responses.
DR. JENNIFER LERNER Anger triggers a sense of certainty as well as a sense of control.
DR. JENNIFER LERNER Angry people are actually not just more optimistic than fearful people, they're optimistic in an abs...
DR. JENNIFER LERNER There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environ...
K. LEE LERNER Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dep...
EDWARD M. LERNER Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example,...
EDWARD M. LERNER The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient...
EDWARD M. LERNER What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
EDWARD M. LERNER A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, th...
EDWARD M. LERNER I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a f...
EDWARD M. LERNER I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men —even fiction...
K. LEE LERNER When no one need you to comeback home.. Keep strong... Because they are still a home for you.. Your ...
JAY Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ...
JAY-Z My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ...
JAY-Z When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that&...
JAY KAY I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What y...
JAY-Z Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i...
JAY-Z I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never ...
JAY-Z Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
JAY-Z One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That&#...
JAY-Z I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different...
JAY-Z All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the...
JAY-Z It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You...
JAY-Z