Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Obama
  • Misgivings

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Eye
  • Leader
  • Horizon

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Almost

• If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Yourself

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Father
  • Dad

• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wall

• I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Never
  • Still
  • Unpleasant

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Help

• Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Useless

• In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Politics

• I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Real
  • Celebrity
  • Page

• My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • House
  • Sun

• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.

  

  Steve Earle
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

  

  Jonathan Carroll
  • Bad
  • Coffee
  • Airplane

• The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Personality
  • Voice
  • Suicide