Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.
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As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.
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I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
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Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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On his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One was blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.
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When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
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The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.
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I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
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If I can't even be bothered to brush my hair, I don't think I should start getting face work... I think it would look a bit try-hard.
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My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
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I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.
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Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
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When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.
