Ben Kingsley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.
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After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
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When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?
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I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
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The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.
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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
