Benny Hill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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What matters most is the win.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.
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It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.
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Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?
