Ben Lerner Quotes
The more abysmal the experience of the actual, the greater the implied heights of the virtual.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.
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It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
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I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules, it's the perfect place to create unlikely combinations of musical genres.
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If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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The more abysmal the experience of the actual, the greater the implied heights of the virtual.
