Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light.Ben Aaronovitch
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
Ed Royce -
I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
Jackie Earle Haley -
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith -
The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
Adam Davidson -
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde -
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Olive Schreiner
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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
Laura Haddock -
You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
Mae Whitman -
I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
Callie Khouri -
I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
Pardis Sabeti -
Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
Orla Brady -
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
Oscar Hijuelos
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
Gary Numan -
Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
Gardner Dozois -
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
Natalie Merchant -
Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.
T. S. Eliot -
Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower...
Barack Obama -
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
Samuel Johnson
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Jesse Jackson -
My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
Carl Crawford -
Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly -
As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
Jason Silva -
I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.
Lynn Flewelling -
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light.
Ben Aaronovitch