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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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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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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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.
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It was the individuals who made their own rules in this situation. No one forced them to behave in an unkind manner. The opportunity to act decently toward us was always available to them. Only the tiniest number of them ever used it.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
