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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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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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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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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I'm an early riser, which is sometimes a drag when I have late-night concerts. But I prefer to wake up early - say, 8:30 - and maybe take a nap during the day.
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Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.
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Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.
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There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
