Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
Tabitha Soren
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
Edmund Morgan
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
Mandy Patinkin
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I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
Yelawolf
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
Warren Spector
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When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why.
Dita Von Teese
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When they first said I made it through it was just crazy, I mean all kinds of thoughts were going through my head, and you know to be watching the show for nine seasons and to be on it now is surreal, it's so surreal.
Scotty McCreery
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I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with each other, so that their continuous presence in a company, as in England, is not absolutely necessary.
Arthur Penn
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'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.
Kris Holden-Ried
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I'm young in spirit and have lots of energy.
Doug Hutchison
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One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.
Chris Cornell
Soundgarden
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ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.
Frank Caliendo
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History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.
Desmond Tutu
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I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
Jeremy Corbyn
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When I came here, Texas had the greatest facility in the world at the time. What also attracted me to UT was the fact that I wouldn't lose as many good swimmers to the academically prestigious schools, because swimmers could also get a great education here.
Eddie Reese
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Fuck me. We're living in Isengard.
Ben Aaronovitch
