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.
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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.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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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.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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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.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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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.
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I'm not graceful.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions.
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I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
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We can only shape a bright future if we are aware of Germany's enduring responsibility for the ultimate betrayal of all civilised values that was the Shoah.
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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.
