Ben Lerner Quotes
Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
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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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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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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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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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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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We have the best-trained military in the world.
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The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.
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Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
