Ben Lerner Quotes
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
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Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.
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Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.
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Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
