I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
BEN ELTONYou think I look like a teletubby?
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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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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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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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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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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