Ben Elliot Quotes

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.

Ben Elliot

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LifeWorkGoodBeautyArtThink

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

John Frankenheimer

DirectingPercentCasting

I just figure if it has my name on it, and I want to make people feel good about wearing it, I can't pass it off.

Melissa McCarthy

GoodPeopleFeel GoodNameFeelOff

I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super okay with them.

Maulik Pancholy

SnakeNowOkayNow And ThenFlorida

I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

Johnny Christ

MusicFocusListeningPlaceToo Much

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

John Steinbeck

CoffeeBreakfastPrideSaladBig

I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much.

Trevor Noah

HomeLiveNew YorkWorldProudYear

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

Tom Freston

LifeMy LifeNeverAnythingFired

Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.

Joseph DeRisi

TechnologyPastCreateStudentNew

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

Syd

FutureInspiredWorkingOddReally

In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'

Thomas J. Sargent

WaterSayWillDifficultOutSense

There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.

Thomas Bangalter

MusicTechnologyQualityFightStart

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Muhammad Iqbal

DestinyIslamWillSufferItself

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