Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Missing kids are tough cases. I mean, murder is bad but at least the worst has already happened to the victim—they’re not going to get any deader. Missing kids come with a literal deadline, made worse by the fact that you don’t get to learn the timing until it’s too late.Ben Aaronovitch
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
Mahmoud Darwish -
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
Kary Mullis -
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
Dan Webster -
Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.
Clay Clark -
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
Adrienne Barbeau -
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
Kevin Spacey
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You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
Leonard Susskind -
It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.
Lisa See -
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
Liu Xiaobo -
Jackson said, laughing. ''You're both up against a deadline.
Ben Affleck -
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
Peter Gabriel Genesis -
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.
Auberon Waugh
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I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.
Haj Amin al-Husseini -
But silence is where victims dwell.
Nelly Sachs -
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
Bill Vaughan -
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
Richard Holbrooke -
I'm a procrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.
Adam Grant -
If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.
Richard Holbrooke
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There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
Douglas Jerrold -
Of course, Sam [Fuller] was like, "No problem," because he treated it like a newspaper deadline. We worked long hours, often very late into the night, in his garage, which had been converted into an office. It was freezing cold outside and there was no heat in the garage, so he had a little space heater over by his side and I had a blanket that he graciously gave me to drape around my shoulders like a Navajo Indian. And he gave me cigars, too, of course.
Curtis Hanson -
Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets.
Emmanuel Mounier -
Missing kids are tough cases. I mean, murder is bad but at least the worst has already happened to the victim—they’re not going to get any deader. Missing kids come with a literal deadline, made worse by the fact that you don’t get to learn the timing until it’s too late.
Ben Aaronovitch