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.
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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.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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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.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
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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.
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We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.
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Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
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Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.
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Audi has fewer problems with electronics than any other company.
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Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
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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.
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I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.
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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.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.
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There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.
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You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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He was sure that police box hadn’t been there before.
