Ben Lerner Quotes
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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Life is our dictionary.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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To seek the highest good is to live well.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a distraction from primary goals.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.
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Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.
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I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.
