I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
BEN ELTONI 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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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My 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!
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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 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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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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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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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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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