Ben Lerner Quotes
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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I hate being too pretty.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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Fez gave her a squeeze. 'You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.' She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. 'It just makes sense, is all.''Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.'
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in 'History', harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
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When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
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Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
