Top 55 Ben Elton Quotes
#1. To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.
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#2. Because they're twins. they've got each other, wolf. This is a tough town in a tough world. But no matter how tough it get - our boys will always have each other.
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#3. My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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#4. Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.
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#5. The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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#6. I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.
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#7. 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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#8. Professor Sengupta had the self-satisfied habit common to many academics of pretending an intellectual equality with his audience in order to happily demonstrate his own superiority.
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#9. If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
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#10. Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators
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#11. You ... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!
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#12. I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world.
Shelley Conn
#16. I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
Ian Axel
#17. History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.
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#18. [H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.
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#19. 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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#20. You think I look like a teletubby?
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#21. Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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#22. What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Artists don't create society, they reflect it
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#26. When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.
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#27. With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.
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#28. I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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#29. 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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#30. They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.
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#31. What the matter wit' your momma? She only know one name?' Stone
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#32. I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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#33. I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
Ron Ben-Israel
#34. And through all that dreadful darkness she had remembered him. He who loved her. He who still loved her. Who would always love her.
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#35. I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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#36. I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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#37. 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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#38. Ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When
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#39. A time when the miracles of technology were still virile and exciting: steam engines and flying machines, not smart phones and cosmetic surgery. When there were still wildernesses left to explore and mountains left unclimbed
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#40. I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.
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#41. People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
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#42. You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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#43. People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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#44. I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed
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#45. And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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#46. So far no one has claimed responsibility.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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#51. You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.
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#55. 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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