Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTONYou think I look like a teletubby?
More Ben Elton Quotes
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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I loved writing ‘Two Brothers’ more than anything else I have written. It’s the first book I’ve written that I’ve always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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