Ben Miller Quotes
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I trust myself. You need that to survive.
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In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
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You dream to eat whatever you can and get away with it and then when you're told you have to eat, it loses its fun straight away.
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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
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Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
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Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.
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I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
