Ben Miller Quotes
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.Ben Miller
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
Ophelia Lovibond -
If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
Talcott Parsons -
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney -
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 -
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
Kara Walker
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
Ted Cruz -
One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
Daniel Bryan -
People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
Larry Wilmore -
You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
J. B. Smoove -
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
Iris Apfel -
On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.
Ma Huateng -
Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
Jack LaLanne -
I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
Ovid -
Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Antonio Porchia
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In this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.
Emily Dickinson -
Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
Karl Pilkington -
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker -
I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.
Jason Bateman -
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.
Franz Boas -
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
Ben Miller