Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.
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The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
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My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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Wake up to the real world. Look at what's happening in the region. Look at where people are going, how people react to humiliation and marginalization. I do not think a few more votes is worth making this menace - that we all face - far more complicated. People have to wake up to that and respond to that, not politicize it.
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Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
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Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.
