Ben Lerner Quotes
The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I am a reserved guy and need somebody to pep me up every day, Upsi does that job perfectly. She is very vivacious and outspoken, so we blend very well. We both love travelling, and we have a thing for adventure. We love being outdoors and like to ride our own boat rather than being rowed by someone else.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.
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The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'
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The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted...everyting in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.
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The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.
