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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If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.
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You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.
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When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.
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[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.
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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.
