Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.Ben Aaronovitch
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
Abhishek Bachchan -
If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham -
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
Natalie Massenet -
One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
Natsuo Kirino
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Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
Nandan Nilekani -
Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at all the parties and all the events, and I was pretty hard to miss. I was one of the few Spanish cats sitting there with jewelry on, Dapper Dan suits. It was pretty hard to miss me.
Fat Joe -
The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
Bellamy Young -
I'm very protective of how much I let people see.
Christina Aguilera -
News photography teaches you to think fast.
Weegee -
When you have learned to walk in the light of the Lord, bitterness and contention are impossible.
Oswald Chambers
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The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. -
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
Tom Stoppard -
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
H. L. Mencken -
We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
William Shakespeare -
The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
Nicholas Sparks
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West -
I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman -
People just jump right to, 'We're going to create this really cool thing and put it out there and people are going to magically find it.' You have to market your marketing.
Charles "C.C." Chapman -
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
Ben Aaronovitch