Ben Elliot Quotes
Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
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The next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
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In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
