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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The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
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I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
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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.
