Ben Lerner Quotes
My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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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.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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Just make the point we come from the water. It's the most natural medium in the world. It's the only sport you can do from your first bath to your last without hurting yourself.
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My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.
