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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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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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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Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
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As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
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I cannot avoid forgiving everybody that threw a brick at me during my various campaigns, so I think it's important for all of us to bury that and say, 'OK, we need to look forward' - we've got to move forward from 'never Trump' to 'never Hillary.'
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The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.
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We don't own a TV. My kids are always outdoors.
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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.
