Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.
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I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
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The introduction of the digit 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...
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I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
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That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.
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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
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As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.
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Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
