Ben Lerner Quotes

When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.

Ben Lerner

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• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • City
  • Years
  • Interest

• Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Power
  • Want
  • Information

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Growing

• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Respect
  • End

• I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Important
  • Think
  • Religion

• Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Best

• I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Back
  • Royalty
  • Send

• I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Know
  • Feel

• If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • High
  • Today
  • Technology

• Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • People
  • Right
  • Need

• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Find Yourself

• There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.

  

  Mark Consuelos

• We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford

• People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

  

  Ken Salazar
  • People
  • American
  • Running

• It doesn't matter. I look at it like this, the start of the season I'll do what I've always done. That's it.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Done
  • Baseball
  • Matter

• Ma tanto più maligno e più silvestrosi fa 'l terren col mal seme e non cólto,quant'elli ha più di buon vigor terrestro.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Baseball
  • Athletes
  • Glare