Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
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I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.
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And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.
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Our Army is filled with women and men who care and who are in a position to change and improve the conditions under which we serve
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We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.
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Smith recalls: “Within a span of perhaps twenty minutes everyone around me was dead or wounded, except me.
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Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.
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Nobody has the right to humiliate someone else, period.
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When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people.
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At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.
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I loved the role [of John Wick]. I loved the action. I loved all the new characters. The world expands into the Underworld. It's getting bigger. Yeah, it was a really great experience [in John Wick 2].
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Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.
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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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A woman driver went through a red light. The cop stopped her and said, Lady, didn't you see that red light? The woman said, You've seen one, you've seen them all.
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The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.
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Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.
