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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The theory that Divine Providence does not extend to man, and that there is no difference between man and other animals, implies very bad notions about God; it disturbs all social order, removes and destroys all the moral and intellectual virtues of man.
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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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The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.
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When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I saw something in the store the other day that I don't understand: that peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Is there a point to that? I mean, I'm lazy-but I wanna meet the guy who needs that. Some guy going, "You know, I could go for a sandwich-but, uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. Cleaning, who knows how many knives!?"
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Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
