My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTONAnd roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
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