Ben Lerner Quotes

Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.

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• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Results
  • Feel Good

• Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Good
  • Work
  • Memorial

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Together
  • Failure
  • Finish

• Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Small
  • Theatre
  • Camera

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I'm a rock and roll singer.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Roll

• Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Boring

• I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Circumstances

• It's nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit. That is the message I definitely want to get out.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • View

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

  

  Dana Davis
  • People
  • Family
  • Think

• Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Together
  • Responsibility

• Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• Beauty does not mean one thing but not something else.

  

  Alek Wek

• If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Heaven
  • Wonder
  • Wonders

• Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Fault
  • Creates
  • Critic

• Smile. Your eyes sparkle when you do.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.

  

  Ben Lerner
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