Ben Miller Quotes

My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

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• With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Influence
  • Will

• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Happy
  • Law
  • Influence

• I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Influence
  • First
  • Chaos

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Influence

• I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Inspiration
  • Influence
  • Musically

• Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Influence
  • Skill

• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Right
  • Influence
  • Far

• The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Guy
  • Influence
  • Songs

• I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Play
  • See
  • Influence

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Actor
  • Entertainment
  • Joke

• I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Up
  • Person
  • Everyone

• The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Mistake
  • Listening
  • Gut

• There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Work
  • Together
  • Stop

• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature. Lacking that, he also lost his foresight, and unwittingly depleted the inheritances of his children. “We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Children
  • Civilization
  • Inheritance

• At the age of 11 is when I took my love & interest for singing a bit more serious.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Age
  • Singing
  • My Love

• My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Influence
  • Joke
  • My Father