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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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
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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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It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.
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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.
