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.

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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

• 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

• 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 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

• Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

  

  Alistair Darling
  • Real

• Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

  

  Jill Stein
  • She
  • Poverty

• But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz

• I met with my spiritual teacher and went to a therapist. I realized that if I came from a positive place, not only will everyone feel better and I will feel happier, but the company will work better.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Positive

• A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • World
  • Health
  • Environment

• Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.

  

  Anwar Robinson

• If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, is there? You'd just be a wolf, run around, try to catch rabbits or something.

  

  Martin Millar
  • People
  • Why
  • Evil

• 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