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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I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.
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My parents were Belfast Catholics.
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The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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Playing in Milan for me meant being able to play alongside players who were idols to me as a kid. Playing alongside David Beckham - his long passes are perfect for me.
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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
