Ben Elliot Quotes

I have to be passionate about everything I do.

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• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • You
  • Small

• There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Want
  • Democracy

• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Difference
  • Knowing
  • Wit

• Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • Fine
  • Sincere

• As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

  

  Randy Owen
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Come

• I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Dreams

• I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• Life is a thread that someone entangled.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life

• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Long
  • Education
  • Learning

• I can't hold on very long Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home

  

  Norah Jones
  • Long
  • Home
  • Pretty

• Candidate Trump had previously opined that 'Islam hates us' and had called for 'the total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,' an argument he has since modified and moderated.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Trump

• February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • High
  • Water
  • February

• The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Free

• A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

  

  Boethius
  • Alone
  • Heaven

• In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States. The Mexicans return the detained Central American migrants by bus or by air to the countries they come from.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Country
  • Bus

• It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Sweet

• I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Mankind
  • Improve

• I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

  

  Donald Sutherland
  • Silly

• I have to be passionate about everything I do.

  

  Ben Elliot