The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
BEN ELTONI think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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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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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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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I see dull people as projects … to be reformed
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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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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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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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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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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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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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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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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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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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