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.
BEN ELTONI try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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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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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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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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