Ben Nicholas Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.
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Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
