Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Never run a game of Hide the Lady if you can’t remember where you’ve put the queen, because some people embrace forensic accounting as a blood sport.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.
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No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.
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Nothing is a conscious choice as an actor at the begining stage. There's so little that's a conscious choice even now. The offers, as absolutely limited as they are even at this point in my career, I have to really think about. I have a family, and it's a job. There are times when you take work that you normally may not dig. If someone says, "I want to meet with you," and they're about a hundred miles away, just go. You never know what might come out of it, and if you can make it, make it to the meeting.
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I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass.
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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Do you know what's odd and weird and strange - a democracy with a fucking Queen...Piers Morgan, who's a cock anyway...sweaty faced bollix.
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Never run a game of Hide the Lady if you can’t remember where you’ve put the queen, because some people embrace forensic accounting as a blood sport.
