Ben Lerner Quotes
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
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Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
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There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.
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You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
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Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"
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Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.
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Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
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Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
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When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
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I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.
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There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.
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Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
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I promised to pass through a series of worlds with you,” I remembered from her vows.
