Ben Lerner Quotes
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.
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If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough with the issues to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
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Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.
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The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
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Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.
