Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Women
  • Character
  • Career

• I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Maternal

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Free
  • Small

• I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Why
  • Help

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Gold

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Different
  • Identity
  • Actor

• I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Think

• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time
  • Gay

• The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Brain
  • Survival

• I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

  

  Claire Tomalin

• The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

  

  Donald Knuth

• If I was applying for a legal position, I would highlight my experience working for the San Francisco-L.A. DA's office, and I would mention some of the high-profile cases I did, but if I was looking for another television job, I would gloss over that, and I'd mention the highlight reel of what I did in television.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• We've all got flesh. I've just got a little more.

  

  Jami Attenberg

• The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Had
  • Iconography
  • Grateful Dead

• If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

  

  Jack Valenti

• When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'

  

  Antonia Thomas
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Experience
  • Attention
  • Trouble