Ben Elliot Quotes

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

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• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • She
  • Kitchen
  • Grandma

• I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Right Person

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Government
  • Rights

• With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Done
  • Character
  • Me

• I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Good
  • School
  • American

• I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Debt

• I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn't normally read. And more often than not, the articles that you don't expect to care about are the ones that grab you.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • You
  • Care
  • News

• I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Think
  • Girl

• Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Trying
  • You
  • Creating

• I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Bad
  • Question
  • Care

• My homeland is the portuguese language.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Joy

• God loves us all, and all of us are equal in God's sight.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God

• Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red.. .But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Red
  • Green
  • Blue

• The labeling of products of the Jewish state by the European Union brings back dark memories. Europe should be ashamed of itself. It took an immoral decision. Of the hundreds of territorial conflicts around the world, it chose to single out Israel and Israel alone, while it's fighting with its back against the wall against the wave of terror.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • World
  • Alone
  • Single

• A poll will give you the most popular answer but not the answer that optimizes the preference of a group.

  

  Louis B. Rosenberg
  • Popular

• Paradoxically, we often end up acting most on our feelings when we are least aware of them, all the while deluding ourselves that we are carefully acting only on judgments. And we are often quite oblivious to the influences that our feelings have on our judgments.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Feelings
  • Influences
  • Judgments

• I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Wife

• We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents", the law banning homosexual "propaganda", problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition.

  

  Cecilia Malmstrom
  • Problem
  • Situation
  • Propaganda

• I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

  

  Ben Elliot