I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
BEN ELTONI think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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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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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’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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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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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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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 exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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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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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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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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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 don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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