Ben Miller Quotes
All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual. It's dancing with the actors and responding to their body language, and you feel what the right place for the camera is at any given moment.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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All men in their 40s want to be in rock bands, and I reserve the right to be in a pub band at some point.
