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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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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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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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
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The statement which has been made by the Leader of the Opposition was that the intelligence has stopped. I don't know whether that was a personal confession or whether it was a statement of position.
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It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
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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.
