Ben Lerner Quotes

But we were also Jewish, one of two Jewish families in our neighborhood, our complex, our compound, and the ovens had been active only fifteen years before.

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• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Science

• Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Government

• My head works in music, so there's always music there.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Always
  • Head

• Russian efforts and the direct efforts of ...(Russian special envoy) Viktor Chernomyrdin have not found the understanding and proper support of NATO leadership

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Support
  • Understanding
  • Leadership

• shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • War
  • Conversation

• Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.

  

  Saharon Shelah
  • Time
  • Trying

• A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Money

• And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Easy
  • Bed
  • Beats

• The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Man
  • Creature
  • Absurdity

• I hope to see London once ere I die.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Travel
  • Dies
  • London

• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Future
  • Knowledge

• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• Are you afraid of the good you might do?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Afraid

• Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Human Beings
  • Families
  • Environments

• But we were also Jewish, one of two Jewish families in our neighborhood, our complex, our compound, and the ovens had been active only fifteen years before.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Families
  • Neighborhood
  • Jewish