Ben Lerner Quotes
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
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There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.
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Since the world is ending, why not let the children touch the paintings?
