Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Want

• The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Regret

• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Work
  • Care

• During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Life
  • Family
  • School

• Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Standup

• Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Acting

• What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Important
  • Money
  • Why

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Hand
  • Hands

• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Wall

• The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Members
  • Judges
  • Judiciary

• Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Bible
  • Actor
  • Carry

• I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Political

• I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • School
  • Film
  • New York

• The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • Students
  • Lady
  • Do It

• The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Pain
  • Ego
  • Isolation

• I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested I was in the possibilities in writing a poetry that applied formal and substantive options of narrative and non-narrative, lyric and non-lyric. I found many pleasures in this kind of writing. The long poem is as old as the art form.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Art

• I have to understand the rules here in England.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Understand
  • Rules
  • England

• To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Language
  • Solitude

• The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Language
  • Rules
  • Grammar