Ben Kingsley Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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Marijuana is a useful tool, but I look at it as a shaman does any of the power plants shaman use. It is to be experienced, to show one that there are other vibrations and other realities, and then you take what you learn back with you to the “real” world.
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Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
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I don't honestly think people know what acting is.
