Ben Lerner Quotes
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.
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We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.
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Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
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So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.
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Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.
