Ben Miller Quotes
I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I will keep working hard!
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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In Colombia, we have a lot of passion.
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I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.
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When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.
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The dying crimson of the West That faintly tinged his haggard cheek, Fell on her as she stood, and shed A glory round the patient head.
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Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.
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I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.
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I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
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I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.
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My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.
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Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.
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I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'
