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.Ben Lerner
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
R. J. Cutler -
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
Irvine Welsh -
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.
Patrick Warburton -
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.
Gary Carter -
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid
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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.
Saint Ignatius -
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi -
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.
Bebe Rexha -
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.
Oscar Isaac -
It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
Eason Jordan -
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
Tamara Mellon
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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.
Damien Chazelle -
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.
Jack Reynor -
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau -
I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
Chris O'Dowd -
If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.
Dorothy Dandridge -
I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and you lose your identity.
Alexander McQueen
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
Simone de Beauvoir -
The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication...is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.
Marshall McLuhan -
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson -
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.
Ben Lerner