Ben Lerner Quotes

Since the world is ending, why not let the children touch the paintings?

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• But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • You
  • See

• '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.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • World
  • Work
  • Amazing

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Words
  • Happiness

• Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Dad

• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • New
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• 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.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• 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.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Good
  • Age
  • Good Things

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Times
  • U.S.
  • Some

• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Business
  • Man
  • Yourself

• Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Made

• 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.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • America
  • Opportunity

• The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • May
  • Book
  • Author

• One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • God
  • Book
  • Dad

• I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Control

• God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do that, I'm being unfaithful and sinful.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • God
  • Children
  • Family

• When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Contact

• Since the world is ending, why not let the children touch the paintings?

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Children
  • Paintings