Ben Lerner Quotes
There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.Ben Lerner
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish -
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
Jack Kevorkian -
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
Jack Ma -
I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
Laura Dern -
I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
Mahesh Babu
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
Imelda Marcos -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
Nana Mouskouri -
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
Jacky Ickx -
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
Daniel Barenboim
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
J. K. Simmons -
My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann -
A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
Randall Jarrell -
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.
M. C. Escher -
While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'
Karen Civil -
You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
James Daly
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Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.
Claudio Ranieri -
And learn the luxury of doing good.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.
Colin Hanks -
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
Lord Dunsany -
Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson -
There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
Ben Lerner