Ben Lerner Quotes
Emerging from the train, I found it was fully night, the air excited by foreboding and something else, something like the feel of a childhood snow day when time was emancipated from institutions, when the snow seemed like a technology for defeating time, or like defeated time itself falling from the sky, each glittering ice particle an instant gifted back from your routine.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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I don't read much of anything online.
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
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God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
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I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die
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Emerging from the train, I found it was fully night, the air excited by foreboding and something else, something like the feel of a childhood snow day when time was emancipated from institutions, when the snow seemed like a technology for defeating time, or like defeated time itself falling from the sky, each glittering ice particle an instant gifted back from your routine.
