Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.
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I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
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What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Fasting is a way of making sure we haven't let the rhythms of the everyday put us to sleep, a way to make sure that our habits have not become addictions...
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.
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He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.
