Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
The narrow hallway was lined with framed photographs while the far end was dominated by a faux movie poster for Gone with the Wind starring Ronald Reagan sweeping Margaret Thatcher off her feet while a mushroom cloud bloomed behind them. She promised to follow him to the end of the world. He promised to organise it.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
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The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92
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I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me if you are not laughing at me.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.
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Be wise with speed;A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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There is no question that at times in my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about my country, that I worked far too hard and that things happened in my life that were not appropriate.
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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I've always had a really difficult time with loss.
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In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
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The narrow hallway was lined with framed photographs while the far end was dominated by a faux movie poster for Gone with the Wind starring Ronald Reagan sweeping Margaret Thatcher off her feet while a mushroom cloud bloomed behind them. She promised to follow him to the end of the world. He promised to organise it.
