Ben Lloyd-Hughes Quotes
My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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I definitely feel most at home in New York City, although I get stir-crazy if I'm here too long.
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My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
