My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
BEN ELTONI don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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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 think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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