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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.

Ben Elton

People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
BEN ELTON

First Little People
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
The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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Lasts Opera Race
The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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Century Over Worst
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
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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Natural People Waiting
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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Believe Groups Looks
I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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Half Mother Race
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
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
You think I look like a teletubby?
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Looks Thinking
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
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 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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Baseball Oasis Vote
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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Dream Gears Wake Up

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 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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