Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Fish and chip night was a Kumar family tradition that dated back to when Jaget was courting his wife and they used to meet in the last white English-owned fish and chip shop in Wembley on the basis that none of their relatives would go in there.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  

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• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

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• America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.

  

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• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

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• I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

  

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• So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

  

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• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

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• My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

  

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• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

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• I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Think
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• Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

  

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• Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

  

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• My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

  

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• God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

  

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• You just can't compare the WWE to anything else when it comes to sports entertainment. There is nothing like the WWE, nothing like this machine I am working for and I'm proud to work for.

  

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• I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

  

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• Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.

  

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• I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

  

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• I keep things pretty loose. I'm always attracted to the artists that have a, like a really loose, kind of, human style, you know, you can see, you can tell there's, there's a humanity in there.

  

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• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

  

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• My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

  

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• Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing more testing around the state in streams and lakes and fish, and we're finding more of it.

  

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• Fish and chip night was a Kumar family tradition that dated back to when Jaget was courting his wife and they used to meet in the last white English-owned fish and chip shop in Wembley on the basis that none of their relatives would go in there.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Fish
  • Relatives
  • Family Tradition