Ben Lerner Quotes

Of course, if we’ve learned anything, it’s how dangerous that fragile masculinity can be.

Ben Lerner

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• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Bed
  • Beat
  • Her

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Veteran
  • Veterans

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Right
  • Possession
  • Smiling

• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Alone

• Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Goal

• Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Crazy
  • Media
  • Lights

• Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Book
  • Moral

• There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Shoes

• My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • She

• I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Spread

• Did you bring me a hamburger? Did I-No,Myrnin,I didn't bring you a hamburger.Bizarre.He'd never asked for that before. Coffee? It's late. Doughnuts? No. What good are you then?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Coffee
  • Hamburger

• Gentlemen prefer blondes.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Gentleman
  • Blonde
  • Classic

• When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Learned

• There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Learned
  • Pool
  • Climb

• I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!

  

  Benjamin Boukpeti
  • Confidence
  • Door
  • Games

• Of course, if we’ve learned anything, it’s how dangerous that fragile masculinity can be.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Masculinity