Ben Macintyre Quotes
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.
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But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
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As a consumer, you don't want to choose from a million pairs of jeans. You just want the one pair that's going to fit you and look great on you.
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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.
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Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
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I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.
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Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.
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I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again.
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I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
