Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education.

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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Serious

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Achievement

• I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I've been on sets my whole life.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Life
  • Been
  • Sets

• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Listening
  • Sister
  • Grateful

• Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Dance

• You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Great
  • Future

• In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Movie
  • Strong
  • King

• I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

  

  Geoffrey Beene

• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Education
  • College
  • California

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Experience
  • Actor
  • Process

• Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
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