Ben Miller Quotes
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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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.
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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.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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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.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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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.
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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.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
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Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.
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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.
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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
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Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
