Ben Elliot
Related BRYSON TILLER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force ... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS CHRIS KYLE I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduc... BEN ELLIOT I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that! SHANNON HOON ALFIE ALLEN Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that ... DWIGHT SCHULTZ I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have... ALAN CUMMING Our weights fluctuate: Some people gain or lose, even friends who are average size. If I would say &... CHRISSY METZ JIMMY BRESLIN CARRIE UNDERWOOD People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ... ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport ... DANIEL CORMIER About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS RICK RIORDAN EVANDER HOLYFIELD I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I... DANIEL WOODRELL ED MCMAHON STERLING K. BROWN ANNE HATHAWAY CAROLINE WINBERG I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel li... DANA DELANY DAN AYKROYD I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make m... G. W. BAILEY GARRY SHANDLING MADONNA CICCONE I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be ... ANNE MICHAELS I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thin... ALICE EVE I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I... RUPERT EVERETT I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can car... DIABLO CODY I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don&... LILLY PULITZER SANDRA LEE CHRISSY TEIGEN There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, yo... LEOS CARAX HAN SUYIN AVRIL LAVIGNE I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, ei... ANDY BIERSACK YOKO ONO I want to make 'Broadway' a word that doesn't have pejorative connotation. I don't w... THOMAS KAIL LAUREN CONRAD BOB SEGER KENNETH BRANAGH Everybody's gone through high school; everybody understands that dynamic. Some people have a gre... ROSS BUTLER GERRY COONEY If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. Th... ANEURIN BARNARD I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. SARAH SILVERMAN If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don&... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at l... LIZZY CAPLAN DR. DRE I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere ... AYUMI HAMASAKI RASHIDA JONES I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU NATHAN FIELDER KAREN FINERMAN People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR TENA DESAE I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantage... TOM HOLLANDER Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderfu... IMOGEN POOTS What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most importa... BRADY ANDERSON MIRANDA HART I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an awar... WADADA LEO SMITH Jazz sometimes can be really complicated and inaccessible to people because they don't know what... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT NAIMA ADEDAPO You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don... BROOKE SMITH You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. ... GAD ELMALEH MEGAN FOX VIVIENNE WESTWOOD You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. Af... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU JOHN C. MAXWELL SHY GLIZZY GABRIEL BYRNE I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But... ZIYI ZHANG J. J. WATT I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I c... BOB SAGET I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I&#... CATHERINE TATE CHANCE THE RAPPER JACKIE EVANCHO BRUCE DICKINSON It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to... LIZZY CAPLAN I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an awar... WADADA LEO SMITH Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850... GARRETT CAMP You can love me, you can hate me, but just don't be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch. DANIEL CORMIER RICK RIORDAN I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and ... LAUREN POTTER You don't have to look like an Under Armour mannequin to be an athlete. A lot of people probably... PRINCE FIELDER JENNY SLATE I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art s... DAVE GIBBONS MIRIAM MARGOLYES ODELL BECKHAM, JR.
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I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics... BEN ELLIOT When I lived in New York, I discovered these Russian & Turkish Baths in East 10th Street. Great ... BEN ELLIOT I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduc... BEN ELLIOT Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service. BEN ELLIOT Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic. BEN ELLIOT The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries. BEN ELLIOT A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at wa... BEN ELLIOT I definitely like sorting stuff out, and I have the enthusiasm to try and help. BEN ELLIOT In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the d... BEN ELLIOT My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding school... BEN ELLIOT I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it i... BEN ELLIOT I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard. BEN ELLIOT I have to be passionate about everything I do. BEN ELLIOT My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had don... BEN ELLIOT It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within... BEN ELLIOT I don't believe that saying things because you feel they are what people want to hear is the rig... BEN ELLIOT 'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.' BEN ELLIOT There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense. BEN ELLIOT In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive... BEN ELLIOT In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there. BEN ELLIOT Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are. BEN ELLIOT If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed. BEN ELLIOT What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill t... BEN ELLIOT I think people might say I'm a bit of a sucker for punishment. BEN ELLIOT Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and e... BEN ELLIOT I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choi... BEN ELLIOT JANE ELLIOT JANE ELLIOT I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool. GRAHAM ELLIOT The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can... ELLIOT RICHARDSON JANE ELLIOT There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative proce... ELLIOT RICHARDSON My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongs... ELLIOT ACKERMAN I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educat... ELLIOT COWAN ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELLIOT PAUL EBENEZER ELLIOT WALTER ELLIOT JANE ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT WALTER ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JANE ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT WALTER ELLIOT Over time, this type of service is likely to be absorbed by the larger vendors. BERN ELLIOT This is the new dial tone. The basic customer-service model today is broken; for most customers, it'... BERN ELLIOT We believe [speech] is ready for successful deployment and offering clear, tangible benefits today. BERN ELLIOT Because of its strong relationship with some of the carriers, as well as a relationship with Microso... BERN ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to ... ELLIOT RICHARDSON People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. ELLIOT RICHARDSON I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. N... CASS ELLIOT JANE ELLIOT The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line... ELLIOT RICHARDSON ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT JANE ELLIOT In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has ce... ELLIOT ACKERMAN I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun.... GRAHAM ELLIOT Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like... GRAHAM ELLIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. GEORGE ELLIOT When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present... CASS ELLIOT They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly. CASS ELLIOT There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't son... CASS ELLIOT My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing. CASS ELLIOT If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what... CASS ELLIOT If you really think you're right, you should tell it. CASS ELLIOT I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I... CASS ELLIOT I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it B... CASS ELLIOT How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opi... CASS ELLIOT Honesty is all you need. CASS ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone ... ELLIOT PERLMAN If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's ... CASS ELLIOT It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent ... THOMAS ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how cl... ELLIOT PERLMAN Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has vi... 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GRAHAM ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT She doesn't wish to have anything to do with this man. ELLIOT MINTZ I've known Paris and worked with her, and the kind of person that was described on the stand this af... ELLIOT MINTZ If this results in Mr. Quintana having to have a distance between himself and Paris Hilton, she's de... ELLIOT MINTZ The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people u... ELLIOT MINTZ She has gone through her share of public embarrassment. This becomes yet another one of those moment... ELLIOT MINTZ The possibility that many people would be reading her journal is really disquieting. She's feeling a... ELLIOT MINTZ At the end of the day what seems to be going on here is that Paris is the only victim. She's going t... ELLIOT MINTZ It would be in the category of weeks as opposed to months. ELLIOT MINTZ I don't see what contribution, if any, she's going to be able to make in that case. ELLIOT MINTZ We wish to make it perfectly clear to anyone who elects to purchase or publish any of Paris Hilton's... ELLIOT MINTZ I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Str... GRAHAM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the ... GRAHAM ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that ... GRAHAM ELLIOT I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your ad... ELLIOT RICHARDSON ELISABETH ELLIOT Oh Angus,” she moaned. “Can’t you just use your…you know…your powers to clean this up?” ... ELLIOT MABEUSE When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she t... ELLIOT MABEUSE And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta... ELLIOT MABEUSE He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne k... ELLIOT MABEUSE Even though momentarily I thought about being a doctor, I was always involved in theatre and did a d... ELLIOT COWAN ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT JIM ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot... 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Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell... 
I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Ye... 
I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; '... 
Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! 
It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I ... 
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... 
Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to ... 
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really... 
You can't really fake chemistry: either you have it or you don't, and you can't have a r... 
A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can... 
I don't get time to hang out with my friends because every time I make a plan, my agent tells me... 
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don... 
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me. 
I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I ... 
Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information... 
Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, ... 
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened w... 
Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don'... 
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Y... 
Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my n... 
For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, ... 
Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think t... 
I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ... 
I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife a... 
I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't... 
I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends ... 
Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, b... 
If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... 
It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends fr... 
It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singe... 
I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don... 
I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendo... 
Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't hav... 
I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno... 
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the reali... 
People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W... 
I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... 
I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think muc... 
I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have ... 
I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with... 
I don't care what I look like. I must be comfortable. Some of my friends have plastic surgery an... 
I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They&... 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ... 
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and ... 
Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in nee... 
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. 
What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings. 
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other 
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. 
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. 
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act a... 
I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails fr... 
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. 
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been ... 
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those ... 