Ben Lerner Quotes
Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.
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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
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I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.
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Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
