Ben Lerner Quotes
My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be best for me. I'm really happy to inhabit the world of independent film.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
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If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.
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For the Master is gracious and receives the last even as the first; He gives rest to him that comes at the eleventh hour, just as to him who has labored from the first. He has mercy upon the last and cares for the first; to the one He gives, and to the other He is gracious. He both honors the work and praises the intention.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.
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My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.
