Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
Samuel Adams -
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
Gary Hamel -
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor -
It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
Samantha Morton -
We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
Jackie Stewart
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
Danai Gurira -
A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.
Akira Kurosawa -
Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
Anne Donovan -
Audi has fewer problems with electronics than any other company.
Martin Winterkorn -
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.
Adeel Akhtar -
I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.
Alex Sharp -
I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.
Cheryl Hines -
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
Jeffrey Tambor -
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
Bob Lilly
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In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.
Conan O'Brien -
I just go out there, try to play my game.
Angelique Kerber -
'You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.' quoted in (February 2010)5
Bill Gates -
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
Jason Silva -
I don't really hate a lot of songs, but I think Weezer has put out some songs I really hate because they've also put out a lot of songs I really like.
Brian Fallon -
He was sure that police box hadn’t been there before.
Ben Aaronovitch