Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
It was chintz but not the cat-lady chintz I was used to. Perhaps it was Mrs. Bellrush’s manner or steely blue eyes but I got the distinct impression that this was aggressive chintz, warrior chintz, the kind of chintz that had gone out to conquer an Empire and still had the good taste to dress for dinner. Any IKEA flat-pack that showed its face around here was going to be kindling.Ben Aaronovitch
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
Malala Yousafzai -
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
Lady Gaga -
We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.
Ian Hecox -
India should be an exporter of technology.
Kapil Sibal -
That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
Adam Jones -
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
Walter Isaacson -
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus -
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Abraham Lincoln -
On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
Lana Parrilla -
This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
Sam Heughan
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Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
Larry Craig -
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler -
Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
Maajid Nawaz -
Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
Om Puri -
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar Bergman -
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
Sam Harris
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
Larry King -
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
Ken Robinson -
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
Aristotle -
It was chintz but not the cat-lady chintz I was used to. Perhaps it was Mrs. Bellrush’s manner or steely blue eyes but I got the distinct impression that this was aggressive chintz, warrior chintz, the kind of chintz that had gone out to conquer an Empire and still had the good taste to dress for dinner. Any IKEA flat-pack that showed its face around here was going to be kindling.
Ben Aaronovitch