Benny Hill Quotes
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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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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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What matters most is the win.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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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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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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The way I see it is that we've got three very effective frontmen in the group and I think that's enough for any band. If you had five frontmen, they'd start bumping into each other, not just physically, but also mentally in terms of writing and everything.
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Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?
