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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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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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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My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, 'Don't walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck,' or, 'If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you're in trouble.'
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.
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I wear modern... vintage.
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If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.
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I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.
