Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
BEN ELTON
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.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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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 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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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 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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I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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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 didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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