Ben Miller Quotes
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
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The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.
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The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.
