Ben Elliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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History's a resource.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm not interested in writing about, things I don't want to think about any longer than 15 or 20 seconds.
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Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
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I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.
