Ben Lerner Quotes
I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
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Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
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At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
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I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.
