Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Absence of evidence, as any good archeologist will tell you, is not the same as evidence of absence.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Garry Kasparov -
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.
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Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.
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Honestly, some of the things that happen will absolutely shock people. It's very unlike what people think of Gilligan's Island...viewers will absolutely be entertained.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
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We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.
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To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
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Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
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You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.
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I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.
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Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.
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I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.
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Absence of evidence, as any good archeologist will tell you, is not the same as evidence of absence.
