And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
BEN ELTONLeaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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 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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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 don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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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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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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