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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Winning is irrelevant when you’re 11 or 12 years old. It really is it. At youth tournaments, I look at the technical ability of the players. Whether the team wins or loses - I don’t care.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house!
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Motor racing is going to miss a phenomenal race driver and I'm going to miss a good friend. I think I will learn a lot with Sam. He is an experienced driver even though he is young. He's been fast at a lot of tracks where we haven't done well so I hope to learn from him.
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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.
