Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

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• My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

  

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• Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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• You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

  

  Walter Martin
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• A lot of people cannot dance because they are inhibited. 'Oh, I can't dance' or 'I have two left feet' or maybe someone has commented on their dancing a while back. When you enjoy something, you might be doing the simplest of moves, but they still look so beautiful.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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  • Dance

• My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!

  

  Edan Lepucki
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• If the Americans attack Iran, the world will change. …They will not dare to make such a mistake'

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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• The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  

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• It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

  

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• In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

  

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• The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

  

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• The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

  

  Ogden Nash
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• The earth says have a place, be what that place requires; hear the sound the birds imply and see as deep as ridges go behind each other.

  

  William Stafford
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  • Sound
  • Bird

• Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

  

  James Naismith
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• Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

  

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
  • Nation
  • Democratic
  • Establish

• The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Purpose
  • Guilt
  • Establish