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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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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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
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Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.
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and they're trying to open cans of food with a screw driver.
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There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.
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I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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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.
