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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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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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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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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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.
