Ben Miller Quotes

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

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• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Bad
  • Feel
  • Nobody

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Power
  • Funny

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • World
  • Seems

• One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • You
  • Give
  • Steak

• Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Know
  • Down
  • Nobody

• Facts don't care about your feelings.

  

  Ben Shapiro

• I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

  

  Mark Valley

• I really enjoy being with my fans. They offer great support and encouragement to me. I like signing autographs and posing for pictures.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Great
  • Support

• In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • American
  • Question

• The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Mother
  • Style
  • Violence

• I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Friends

• Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Good
  • Science
  • Brain

• I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

  

  Kerry Condon
  • Life
  • Job
  • Missing

• I feel like I'm a character already, as in, like, I love dressing up.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up
  • Character

• There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

  

  Dave Foley
  • Childhood

• I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.

  

  James Adomian
  • Country
  • Control

• Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Job
  • Science
  • Comedy