Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Whatever you see, he’d said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
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You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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I believe in order that I may understand.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
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The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.
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We discussed ourselves a lot. But although we were women…we struggled to understand what a woman was. Our every move or thought or conversation or dream, once analyzed in depth, seemed not to belong to us. And this excavation seemed to exasperate those who were weaker, who couldn’t tolerate such an excess of self-reflection and believed that to embark on the road of freedom it was simply enough to cut off men. These were unstable times, arcing in waves. Many of us feared a return to the flat calm and stayed on the crest, holding on to extreme formulations and looking down with fear and rage.
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When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
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Whatever you see, he’d said, take as long a look as you need to get used to it, to accept it, and then move on as if nothing has changed.
