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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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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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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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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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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Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.
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The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.
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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.
