"The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed……" — Ben Elton
"The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth."
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37 Quotes by Ben Elton
Ben Elton has 37 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get…
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You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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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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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even…
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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little…
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty…
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth…
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We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can…
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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…
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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More Appropriation Quotes
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
— Arthur Balfour
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Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation…
— Grover Cleveland
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking…
— Ansel Adams
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Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist…
— Bell Hooks
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There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. Â One is…
— Albert J. Nock
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the…
— Geoff Nicholson
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I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for…
— Franz Oppenheimer
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