Ben Kingsley Quotes
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
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Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
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We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.
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Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
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Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.
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Digest the opinion and determine our future course of conduct.
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The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
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I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
