Ben Lerner Quotes
On various occasions I’d said to a woman I was interested in, “I would invite you to dinner, but I can’t cook,” at which point I would hope she’d say, “I’m a great cook,” so I could ask her to come over and teach me; then we’d get drunk in the kitchen while I displayed what I hoped was my endearing clumsiness, never learning anything.Ben Lerner
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
Ian McShane -
Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
Kate Middleton -
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
Abigail Breslin -
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
Cameron Russell -
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
Olivia Wilde -
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
Hampton Sides
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri -
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss -
Saving a life overrides territories.
Ovadia Yosef -
Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
Patrick deWitt -
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Edmund Hillary
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
Vera Farmiga -
Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
Marat Safin -
We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
Patricia Cornwell -
I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
T. B. Joshua -
I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
Maeve Binchy
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Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.
Angelina Jolie -
She dealt with moral problems the way a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.
James Joyce -
My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
Kapil Sibal -
Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
Elizabeth Meriwether -
On various occasions I’d said to a woman I was interested in, “I would invite you to dinner, but I can’t cook,” at which point I would hope she’d say, “I’m a great cook,” so I could ask her to come over and teach me; then we’d get drunk in the kitchen while I displayed what I hoped was my endearing clumsiness, never learning anything.
Ben Lerner