Ben Miller Quotes
I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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I have no regrets.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
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So you went looking for a myth and found a man.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.
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An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
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Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
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The last night of love, the first night of war
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
