Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
There was also a great absence of people, including behind the mahogany-topped reception desk. Now, there’s a time when an unlocked premises is a positive boon to a police officer as in – I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances which were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, M’lord.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
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Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.
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Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked "progress."
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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
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We didn't know we'd end up here when we left.
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The suffering of my enemies will be a feast to the spirits. When I am old, I will remember the tears they have shed and it will ease my bones.
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Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
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I prefer old-world wines like Lafite Rothschild and Margaux.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
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It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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There was also a great absence of people, including behind the mahogany-topped reception desk. Now, there’s a time when an unlocked premises is a positive boon to a police officer as in – I was just looking to ascertain the whereabouts of the proprietor when I stumbled across the Class A controlled substances which were in plain sight in the bottom drawer of a locked desk in an upstairs office, M’lord.
