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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Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.
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Worry in the dark can make it even darker.
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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.
