Ben Lerner Quotes
The real men—who are themselves in fact perpetual boys, since America is adolescence without end—had to differentiate themselves with violence.
Ben Lerner
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
Imelda May
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Daniel Barenboim
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
Park Geun-hye
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
Ian MacKaye
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It certainly will be if you are still around.
Oscar Levant
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Camille Paglia
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I can Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them, Like men besides, like men in light secluded, Enjoying angels.
Wallace Stevens
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
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When I am president, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally and protected equally. Every action I take, I will ask myself, 'Does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?'
Donald Trump
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I'm still the same cat I always was.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
William Wordsworth
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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory
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The real men—who are themselves in fact perpetual boys, since America is adolescence without end—had to differentiate themselves with violence.
Ben Lerner
