Ben Miller Quotes
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
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We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.
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All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
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I'm not interested in having the second- or third-largest mall in Cincinnati.
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As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
