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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I have no privacy anymore.
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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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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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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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Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.
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Watching Mum work hard made me do the same. I've watched her since I was little, and I've picked up on how hard she works and the fire she has in her belly.
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On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
