Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. ‘What I’m saying here,’ Seawoll had said, ‘is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.’ I don’t know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don’t.

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Woman
  • Look
  • Modesty

• I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mistake
  • Try
  • Blame

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Free
  • Change
  • Single

• I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Know
  • City
  • Write

• I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Run

• Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • War
  • Society
  • Culture

• The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Violence

• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • School
  • Religion
  • Ethics

• Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Think
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Need
  • Hollywood
  • Necessarily

• Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Better

• Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Today
  • Credit

• If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Yourself
  • Look

• On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Wind
  • Snow
  • Forest

• Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning
  • Doubt

• I'm a homebody. I like having my parents around.

  

  Michael Fishman
  • Parents
  • Having
  • Homebody

• Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Believe
  • Members
  • Holy Spirit

• An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

  

  Evariste Galois
  • Author
  • Damage
  • Readers

• Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

  

  Isaac Marion
  • Experience
  • Priceless
  • Collector

• Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. ‘What I’m saying here,’ Seawoll had said, ‘is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.’ I don’t know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don’t.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
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