Ben Kingsley Quotes
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
Quotes to Explore
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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I couldn't meet his gaze. I stared at the table just behind him--the mess of cards on it, the lantern giving off its quiet glow. "When you gave me your shirt to wear that night, I could feel you. I could feel your essence." The world went still. We were standing only inches from each other, not touching. Outside, I could hear the faint murmur of the wind blowing through the trees. "What did it feel like?" he asked in a low voice. "Like...coming home," I admitted.
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I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.
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We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
