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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I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.
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The first Amy Silver book was commissioned, and they were not books that came completely from me. They weren't necessarily the sort of books I read, and although I enjoyed doing them very much, and they were great training, I never felt completely comfortable in that genre.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.