Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Live
  • Integrity
  • Rebel

• My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Character
  • Book

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Sexy

• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Days

• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Born
  • Were

• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Life
  • Love
  • Radio

• I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Excellence
  • Perfection
  • Days

• Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Stress
  • Entrepreneurship

• The dearest things I know are what you are.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • You
  • Know
  • Things

• The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Better

• Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
  • Accept
  • Europe

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Control

• 'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • God
  • Men

• In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Matter
  • Existence
  • Antimatter

• One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Country
  • Home

• There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.

  

  Noel Perrin
  • Beauty
  • Cities
  • Parts

• It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Kids
  • Irony
  • Limitations