I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
BEN ELTONI think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
More Ben Elton Quotes
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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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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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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