Ben Lerner Quotes
The opposite of a truth, is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.
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But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
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Let's stop somebody from doing something!Everybody does too much.
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Codeine...bourbon...
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To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
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There's colors on the streetRed, white and bluePeople shufflin' their feetPeople sleepin' in their shoesBut there's a warnin' signOn the road aheadThere's a lot of people sayin'We'd be better off dead.Don't feel like Satan,But I am to them.So I try to forget it,Any way I can.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.
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Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.
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The opposite of a truth, is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth.
