Ben Elton Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.
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As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.
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Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.
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I get uncomfortable and kind of scared sometimes of certain public situations because, since I've been on TV or I've appeared in some films, people think this boundary between us has been removed, and I owe them something.
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We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.
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Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.
