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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This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
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I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
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God has blessed me to be where I'm at today. All the trials and tribulations I faced throughout my career and life. Look at where I'm at now, I'm the all-time Packers leading receiver of that franchise. That tells you a lot.
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I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which “basically” everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions.
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Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
