Ben Lerner Quotes
Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence. (p. 186)
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Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.
