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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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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I think of digital as a means to an end: How do I service and get more loyal customers, how do I achieve operational excellence, and how do I change my culture?
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?
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Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.
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Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
