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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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
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Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.
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Threads of Rosenquist and Warhol are all through my work. But I'm messier - and wetter. It's the female perspective. I'm not as tidy, and they were both very tidy.
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I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.
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Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.
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Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.