Ben Kingsley Quotes
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
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Every film that is made about the past is always a reflection of the present.
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I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.
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It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
