Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

The rest of the band faded down to almost nothing while my dad did his best Bill Evans impression — except hopefully without the untreated hepatitis.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
  • Tears

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Know
  • Development

• Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Like
  • Wise
  • Looked

• If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • You
  • Try

• There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Memories

• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bad
  • Law
  • Best

• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Art
  • Guy

• I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Professional

• Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Effort
  • Language
  • Cinema

• We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Integrity
  • Now
  • Plan

• In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Country
  • King

• I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

  

  Charli XCX
  • She

• I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Angry

• You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Music
  • Women

• We're obviously not a platinum-selling band, and yet we've managed to maintain a career on a major label through all this time, and I think we always felt like we were, to a certain degree, infiltrators there. And it's been an interesting thing. It's all been like a big art project for us.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Career
  • Band
  • Label

• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Comic
  • Notice

• Philosophy changes day by day.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Philosophy

• The rest of the band faded down to almost nothing while my dad did his best Bill Evans impression — except hopefully without the untreated hepatitis.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Band
  • Impression
  • Hepatitis