Ben Lerner Quotes
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes - including those for social security and unemployment compensation - and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes - principally on CO
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'They’re just ordinary people,' Nancy said. 'You can’t expect too much of them.'
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I never wear the same shoe twice.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.
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I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
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We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way.
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It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
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Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.
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The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
