Ben Lerner Quotes

Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.

Ben Lerner

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• It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Cooking

• Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• I was proud of how our guys bounced back. It would be easy to accept what was going on. We were up earlier in the game as well and gave it up. We'll just have to find a way to play better.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Up
  • Game
  • Play

• Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Past
  • Spirit

• With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Pretty
  • Hair
  • Red

• How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Speak
  • Wells
  • Spanish

• Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

  

  Mark Hanna
  • Dust
  • Fairy
  • Fairy Dust

• It's about transitioning from adolescence, when you live together with parents and see each other every day, to the era when you don't live together and start to grow apart and have to figure out how you're going to have an adult relationship.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Live
  • Together
  • Parents

• Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

  

  D. Patrick Miller
  • May
  • Political
  • Church

• You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Morning
  • Financial
  • Shining

• We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Government
  • Struggle

• I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Want
  • Technology
  • Market

• Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Connection
  • Teaches

• The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

  

  William Sanderson
  • World
  • Sports
  • Study

• We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Running
  • Strange

• If you wait for someone else's hand, you will surely fall down.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Hand
  • Fall Down

• The good thing about coming back and being in games right away is it kind of takes the focus off that.

  

  Chris Pronger
  • Games
  • Being
  • Coming Back

• She stood out among so many because she, naturally, did not submit to any training, to any use, or to any purpose. All of us had submitted and that submission had—through trials, failures, successes—reduced us. Only Lila, nothing and no one seemed to reduce her. Rather, even if over the years she became as stupid and intractable as anyone, the qualities that we had attributed to her would remain intact, maybe they would be magnified. Even when we hated her we ended by respecting her and fearing her.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Purpose
  • Training
  • Failures

• Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in interesting ways, sometimes in stupid ways - there's no division between the art object and what surrounds it.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Private
  • Division
  • Surrounds