Ben Lyons Quotes
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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Act because you love to act.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
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I will open an era of grand national unity.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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«And the European one?»
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.
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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
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I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
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Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were born, how old you are, your social-economic status. It's very complicated to make people laugh.
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Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
