Ben Kingsley Quotes

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

Ben Kingsley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 31, 1943

Topics

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As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.

Joe Kaeser

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Societies depend on agreed rules.

John Maynard Smith

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Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Ann Patchett

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I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.

Steve Bannon

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Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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For every year past the age of 27, you need to take another step toward commitment somewhere in your life. Instead of freelancing, you get a staff job. Instead of renting, you buy. Fine, instead of couch-surfing, you rent.

Tracy McMillan

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Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels and didn't want to be noticed. I liked it because I thought it was ridiculous. The Ramones? That's absurd!

Tommy Ramone

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When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.

Denis Leary

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Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

Debbie Reynolds

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I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

Clyde Tombaugh

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I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

Claire Messud

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