Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
The world was different before the war. We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
Quotes to Explore
-
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
-
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
-
Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
-
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
-
Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
-
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
-
My life is my message.
-
I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
-
For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
-
The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
-
True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
-
'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
-
You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
-
It's a terrible poison, writing.
-
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
-
What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'
-
I've played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I'm the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, 'So, do we pay you?' And he's like, 'No, you pay her; she's the boss.' Those are moments where I'm just like, 'I'm clearly in charge.'
-
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
-
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
-
Alas, this industrialized twelve-tone horse, dull on the outside and empty inside, constantly being perfected and dragged to a new Troy in shadow of an ideological war long since fought and won by responsible minds like Schoenberg, with neither systems nor scholarship for armor!
-
Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.
-
What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class, who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime?
-
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
-
The world was different before the war. We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
