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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.
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I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.
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Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.
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My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
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It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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A show can be artistically successful; a show can be financially successful; a show can be successful by the transformative experience the audience is having; a show can be successful from the point of view of what is experienced by the cast and the company on a daily basis.
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Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
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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.
