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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

Ben Elton

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.
BEN ELTON

Silly Stupid Wish
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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Facts Giving Kind
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up
I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Exercise Hard Reason
Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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Leader Looks Trying
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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Blood Heart Men
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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Doe Real World
I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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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Advice Looks Novel
I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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Dull People Project
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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Done Made Want
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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Celebration Losing World

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

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