Ben Lerner Quotes
Happy were the ages when the starry sky was the map of all possible paths, ages of such perfect social integration that no drug was required to link the hero to the whole.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
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On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.
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It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
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I ask my close friends to give me feedback.
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So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.
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I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'
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It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'
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Happy were the ages when the starry sky was the map of all possible paths, ages of such perfect social integration that no drug was required to link the hero to the whole.
