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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My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.
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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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Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.
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Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.
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I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.
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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.
