Ben Elliot Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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Self-knowledge - the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.
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For me, a stay at the Uma Paro with Pilates every morning is a perfect escape.
