Benny Hill Quotes
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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Industry's responsibilities broaden. Its leaders must develop an enlightened and militant statesmanship, for progress in the solution of these problems is vital. If this responsibility is not assumed and discharged from within industry, it is bound to be superimposed from without.
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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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We strive to have new records. We strive to have new songs on the radio. That feels good that we can gain those new fans and still bring out our fans that have been with us for some of the ride or all of the ride.
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Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.
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For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.
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Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
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So what if we’re not perfect? And so what, we know we’re worth it!
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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
