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.
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY.
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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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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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you’ll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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