Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
As Martin noted, to the detective conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about- especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
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Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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Honesty is very sexy.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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Our Lord’s teaching is always anti-self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to make a man exactly like Himself, and the characteristic of the Son of God is self-expenditure.
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There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.
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Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
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The more I go to the movies, the more I like French movies.
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As Martin noted, to the detective conducting his interview, it was a good thing he'd been inebriated, because otherwise he would have wasted time screaming and running about- especially once he realized he was standing in a pool of blood.
