Ben Lerner Quotes
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!
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Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.
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So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.
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If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
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To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.
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With any teen show, there's going to be drama and heartache.
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When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.
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You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
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Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
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Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.
