Ben Lerner Quotes
Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
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I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.
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A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.
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Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
