Ben Lerner Quotes
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When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.
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It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.
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He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
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I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
