Ben Lerner Quotes
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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.
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Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
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I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.
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Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.
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I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.
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The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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It's clever, but is it Art?
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. . . . . A blockhead with melodious voice, In boarding-schools may have his choice.
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If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
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Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
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Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
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Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.
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The scare quotes burn off like fog.
