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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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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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 trust myself. You need that to survive.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?
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I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.
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If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.
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They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.
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I love touching. I always touch people.
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I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
