Ben Kingsley Quotes
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
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A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.
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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
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I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
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Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
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My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
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I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
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If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.
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I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
