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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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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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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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
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As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.
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Life is crap but, every day is an experience.
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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.
