Ben Lerner Quotes
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.
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I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.
