Ben Lerner Quotes
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.
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Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
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They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.
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I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.
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I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.
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I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army.
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The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.
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It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.
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Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.
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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
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If a woman is old enough to push a ten-pound child through her birth canal, she can hear words like ‘penis’ and ‘cervix.’ These are medical terms, Miss Charingford, not obscenities.
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Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.
