Ben Kingsley Quotes
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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All fundamentalist movements… whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle. Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy … is holding them back.
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The best way to use these lists to replace anger with love in real life is to nurture each other by doing for your partner what your partner normally does for you.
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
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It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.
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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.
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Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
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When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.
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I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.
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I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
